`Van Ness Vision` plan due in March

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Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Vol. XLVIII, No. 5
The Northwest Current
‘Van Ness Vision’ plan due in March
dance theater
■ Revitalization: City effort
seeks to enliven key corridor
By GRAHAM VYSE
Current Staff Writer
D.C. planning officials are set to
release a draft action plan in March
for their Van Ness Vision project —
a budding effort to revitalize the
commercial district along Connecticut Avenue between Albemarle and
Van Ness streets.
With its overarching goal of
bringing the neighborhood “a more
diverse retail environment and
vibrant public realm,” this District
government initiative will build
upon recent work by the local advisory neighborhood commission,
which developed the mission of
achieving “a beautiful, sustainable,
tree-shaded avenue that highlights
and invites connections with Rock
Creek Park.”
According to the commission’s
website, local elected officials hope
to make the street accessible “by
Metro, foot, bicycle and motor vehicle” and to fill it with “outdoor cafes,
markets, restaurants, events and the
arts.”
Of course, most would say that’s
a far cry from today’s Connecticut
Avenue, home to the Van Ness/UDC
Metro station, the University of the
District of Columbia, the public
See Van Ness/Page 9
Spring Valley site eyed for retail building
By BRADY HOLT
Brian Kapur/The Current
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with
the Washington Ballet staged excerpts from “Sleepy Hollow:
Ballet and American Art” on Saturday at the Kogod Courtyard.
The new owners of a Spring Valley retail complex are
hoping to break ground next year on a new building with
about 13,000 square feet of retail and office space.
As envisioned by Washington Real Estate Investment
Trust, the two-story building will cover some of the parking lot between Crate & Barrel and the Capital One bank
branch along Massachusetts Avenue. Two or three
ground-floor spaces will house neighborhood-serving
restaurants or shops, and the second level could host such
uses as a dental office or a yoga studio, according to Bob
Elliott, development director of the Rockville firm.
Representatives of the company held a community
meeting soon after buying the five-building complex on
the west side of Massachusetts Avenue — part of the
Spring Valley Shopping Center, a designated historic
landmark — for $40.5 million last fall.
See Retail/Page 20
The building proposed on the site of the parking lot
beside Crate & Barrel on Massachusetts Avenue
needs Historic Preservation Review Board approval.
Residents blast city over
long-standing ice issues
American University garage
wins nod from zoning panel
By DEIRDRE BANNON
■ Development: Neighbors,
Current Correspondent
It’s been a winter safety hazard for more than 10
years: high levels of groundwater that stream onto two
adjacent Friendship Heights streets, creating treacherous icy conditions every time the temperature dips
below freezing.
Residents have asked the city to fix the problem for
years — by regrading the roads, or adding more storm
drains — but have seen no substantive actions.
While the issue bounced from one city agency to
another, residents warned officials that an accident was
inevitable. And about a month ago, one happened: A
10-year-old boy fell on a thick sheet of ice in front of his
home in the 3900 block of Garrison Street, seriously
injuring his tailbone, causing him severe pain, and forc-
NEWS
school reach accord on water
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Photo courtesy of John Lemoine
Residents of the 5000 block of Belt Road, shown
here in 2014, and the 3900 block of Garrison Street
have complained for years that groundwater
causes icy winter conditions on their streets.
ing him to use a wheelchair and miss more than 10 days
of school.
Despite residents reaching out to city officials after
this incident, there’s still no word on how this problem
See Ice/Page 18
SPOR TS
Palisades Safeway
status quo is likely
to remain for now
— Page 3
Visitation topples
Cathedral in ISL
hoops showdown
— Page 13
The Zoning Commission Monday gave belated approval for a twolevel underground parking garage
already under construction on American University’s new East Campus.
Now the university is scrambling to
get the garage — and dorms above it
— built by an August 2016 deadline
for housing more undergraduates on
campus.
In modifying previous plans for a
one-level garage, the university also
agreed to pay adjacent homeowners
in Westover Place for any damages
caused by underground water displaced by the deeper construction.
Water damage has been a major
source of concern about, and opposition to, excavating the two-level,
150-space garage.
At Monday’s hearing, the university’s attorney indicated that the
school may have to return to the
commission for yet one more
change: longer construction hours to
get the 590 new dorm beds ready in
See Garage/Page 9
INDEX
NEWS
Embassy of Finland
celebrates top score
of LEED Platinum
— Page 5
Calendar/22
Classifieds/30
District Digest/2
Exhibits/23
In Your Neighborhood/8
Opinion/10
Police Report/6
Real Estate/19
School Dispatches/12
Service Directory/27
Sports/13
Theater/25
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District Digest
Deadline approaches
for DC Health Link
The deadline to enroll in DC
Health Link is Feb. 15, and officials took advantage of last weekend’s Super Bowl to help spread
the word, with pizza box fliers and
social media outreach.
A 17th Street pizza shop, Pizza
17, put fliers on its delivery boxes,
and DC Health Link tweeted messages about health insurance
options during the game.
Open enrollment for D.C. residents kicked off Nov. 15 at
dchealthlink.com. Generally, enrollment takes effect on the first day of
the following month.
Heurich House offers
artist studio space
Dupont Circle’s historic Heurich House Museum is offering
new artist studios for rent begin-
ning April 1. Applications are due
by Feb. 15.
At least 10 open studio spaces
will be available on the first floor
of a carriage house on the site, at
1921 Sunderland Place, with seven
partially private spaces on the second floor. Rents will be $500 per
month for first-floor spaces and
$550 for those above.
Built starting in 1892 by brewer
Christian Heurich, the Heurich
House is now open for regular pub-
lic events and tours. Applications
are available at heurichhouse.org/
brewmaster-studios.
Golden Triangle puts
haikus in flower beds
One hundred flower beds
downtown will display not poesies
but poems this winter, as the Golden Triangle Business Improvement
District presents the winners of its
Golden Haikus contest.
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Susan Burch won grand prize
for her piece: “snow storm—/ my
garden Buddha/ becomes Santa.”
All 60 winning poems —
selected out of 400 submissions —
will go on view both in the flower
beds and online at goldentriangledc.com/haiku. (A map of locations is also on the site.)
“During the warmer months,
the tree boxes are filled with
brightly colored flowers, but during January and February, some of
that color is gone from the landscape,” said Leona Agouridis,
executive director of the Golden
Triangle Business Improvement
District. “We hope that the haikus
will bring some of spring’s
warmth, color, and artistry to our
streets in the coldest of months.”
The organization also plans further public-space initiatives, such
as a future effort to create a Connecticut Avenue park whose lights
are powered by energy of the footsteps of passersby.
Correction
A Jan. 7 article on proposed
changes to regulations for roof
structures incorrectly stated that a
maximum height for mechanical
penthouses of 18 feet 6 inches was
part of federal law. Until it was
amended last year, the federal
Height of Buildings Act only
required a setback from the edge of
the roof equal to the height of the
mechanical penthouse, without
requiring a specific measurement,
and the 18 feet 6 inches was part
of local D.C. regulations. (The current federal law now includes a cap
of 20 feet for a roof structure,
while the city is retaining its own
restriction of 18 feet 6 inches.)
The Current regrets the error.
As a matter of policy, The Current corrects all errors of substance. To report an error, call the
managing editor at 202-567-2011.
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ednesday, February 4, 2015
Safeway’s long-term future
in Palisades still uncertain
Park Service eyes boathouses near Key Bridge
By BRADY HOLT
By BRADY HOLT
Although Safeway has completed its merger with Albertsons under
the new ownership of Cerberus
Capital Management, questions
remain about the fate of the company’s Palisades location.
Before the sale of the company,
Safeway was eyeing its 4865
MacArthur Blvd. store for redevelopment as several stories of housing
atop a larger new supermarket. As
the merger was ongoing last fall, the
company instead sought bids for the
parcel and sparked fears that it
would ban future grocers from opening at the property.
But now, neither option is on the
table for the near future, according to
Safeway spokesperson Craig Muckle.
“I know people would like to
think that the moment the transition
occurred we’re going to have
answers on this,” Muckle said in an
interview. “There’s nothing new to
report — we’re going to continue to
sell groceries, we’re going to keep
the status quo. … There are a lot of
other things that are taking the attention of the management group, and
this is a decision that will be coming
Plans to redevelop or sell the
building have been shelved.
down the road.”
The community was vocal about
both the redevelopment concept and
the possible sale. Residents said a
new project had to be compatible
with the Palisades’ scale and character, and that no sale should have a
restrictive covenant banning other
grocery stores. In response, Safeway
began revising its designs — before
the merger placed the project on
hold — and the D.C. Council
stepped in to ban such covenants.
Muckle said the fuss over the sale
may have been overblown. “There
may have been some request for
bids, but that doesn’t mean it’s going
to be sold. Lots of conclusions were
drawn maybe prematurely before,”
he said. None of the bids was acceptSee Safeway/Page 4
The week ahead
Wednesday, Feb. 4
The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a working session to discuss
potential revisions to the District’s state accountability plan. The meeting will
begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1114, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.
■ The National Park Service will host a public meeting to discuss the Georgetown
Non-motorized Boathouse Zoning Development Plan and Environmental Assessment from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. During this open
house, the project team will be available to discuss preliminary alternatives and
other project information.
The National Park Service has proposed allowing
new Potomac River boathouses on either side of the
Key Bridge and is seeking public comment on this
concept.
The agency will hold a public meeting on four
design options at 6 p.m. tonight at the Palisades
Library, 4901 V St. NW. The options include low-,
medium- and high-density visions for a stretch of
shoreline that begins at 34th Street and stretches to a
quarter-mile west of the Key Bridge, along with a
no-build alternative that retains the status quo.
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Saturday, Feb. 7
The Friends of the Cleveland Park Library group will hold its annual meeting,
which will include an update from Jeff Bonvechio of the D.C. Public Library system
on the Cleveland Park branch rebuild. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. in the firstfloor of Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW.
Tuesday, Feb. 10
The Brightwood Commuity Association will hold its monthly meeting from 7 to
9 p.m. at St. John United Baptist Church, 6343 13th St. NW.
■ The Ward 3 Democratic Committee will hold a “community dialogue” with
Mayor Muriel Bowser at 7:30 p.m. at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St. NW.
Thursday, Feb. 19
Mayor Muriel Bowser will host a Budget Engagement Forum from 7 to 8:30
p.m. at Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW.
Wednesday, Feb. 25
The D.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting on the Oregon Avenue reconstruction project from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at St. John’s College
High School, 2607 Military Road NW (use Oregon Avenue entrance).
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The National Capital Planning Commission will hold its monthly meeting,
which will include an information presentation on the proposed Kennedy Center
expansion and the potential impact of a floating riverfront pavilion on water traffic
and Potomac River flooding. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. at the commission’s
offices in Suite 500N, 401 9th St. NW.
■ The Tenleytown Neighbors Association will meet at 7 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Topics of discussion will include construction at American University’s Tenley Circle Campus, news from Georgetown Day
School and the District’s zoning rewrite.
One constant among all three of the “build”
options is the size and locations of two proposed
boathouses. A 7,800-square-foot facility would sit
just west of the Key Bridge, between the bridge and
the Potomac Boat Club, in a space currently used for
outdoor boat storage. The second boathouse, comprising 13,800 square feet, would replace a parking
lot between the bridge and the Georgetown Waterfront Park.
The proposals stem from a 2013 Park Service
feasibility study of a boathouse zone for the Georgetown waterfront, according to agency spokesperson
Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles.
See Boathouses/Page 4
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SAFEWAY: Long-term future of MacArthur Blvd. store not yet decided
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ed, he said.
Even so, the successful community activism on the Safeway issue is
putting big businesses on notice that
they should be careful in the Palisades, according to Spence Spencer.
He leads the Palisades Citizens
Association’s task force on the Safe-
way issue and now serves on the
local advisory neighborhood commission.
“A developer told me that any
developer realizes if he’s going to
come into the community he’s going
to have to take us seriously — he’s
not going to be able to pull the wool
over our eyes,” Spencer said.
The current Safeway is one of the
chain’s oldest stores, dating to 1942.
Redevelopment concepts have suggested replacing the existing store
and its surface parking lot with a
bigger new building. Parking would
move underground, while housing
(early plans included up to 100
condo units) would go above the
supermarket to finance the project.
Spencer said the community is
more than willing to consider future
redevelopment concepts.
“We would have to look at it, and
if it fits with the scale and character
and color of the Palisades, people
might even like it,” he said. “Some
people are saying it’s a shame it
wasn’t developed, and there’s some
merit in that, as the property is underutilized.”
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“This study, which included public comment and feedback, confirmed that non-motorized boating
facilities are needed in Georgetown
due to limited public access points
for these activities along the waterfront,” she wrote in an email. The
new “preliminary alternatives newsletter” doesn’t describe details like
the design of the boathouses or
whether they’d be public or private.
“We are in the very early stages
of looking at potential recreational
improvements that will more fully
support non-motorized recreation,
increase public access to the Potomac
River, and improve the functionality
of the Capital Crescent Trail as it
connects to Georgetown Waterfront
Park,” Anzelmo-Sarles continued.
In addition to the two boathouses
on either side of the Key Bridge, the
“high-density” option would add a
third upstream facility (10,000
square feet) between the Potomac
Boat Club and the Washington
Canoe Club. It also proposes a storage building with canoe and kayak
rentals and a launching area north of
the Washington Canoe Club, and
says each new boathouse would
have its own dock.
A second new storage building
would be located under the bridge.
This element is present in all three
“build” options, along with a trail,
picnic area and “habitat enhancements” beyond the canoe club.
The medium-density option
replaces the second boathouse with a
storage facility with rentals and
launching spaces, plus a small “finger pier” dock, while omitting the
western storage building.
The low-density alternative adds
only the two Key Bridge boathouses,
the storage building under the bridge,
and the finger pier and launch area
beyond the Potomac Boat Club; no
building would be constructed west
of that facility.
The public comment period will
continue through March 6, but some
community members have already
begun to weigh in, according to
Georgetown advisory neighborhood
commission chair Ron Lewis.
“Issues have been raised whether
boathouses should be there, because
of the important view of Key Bridge
and the use of the waterfront park by
so many people,” Lewis said at
Monday’s neighborhood commission meeting, specifically regarding
the eastern boathouse proposal.
Another question, he said, is
whether private boathouses — if
considered by the Park Service —
would be appropriate for public land,
or if the facilities would need to be
open to residents. Georgetown University’s long-standing push to build
itself a boathouse was one of the
factors that led the agency to study
the issue.
The commission will consider
the matter at its March 2 meeting.
For more information on the proposals or to send a comment to the
Park Service, visit parkplanning.nps.
gov/nmbzea.
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Dupont Circle ANC aims to focus on policy-oriented goals in coming year
By GRAHAM VYSE
Led by their new chair Noah Smith, Dupont
Circle’s advisory neighborhood commissioners are embarking on an effort to more proactively shape public policy related to their communities.
Commissioners will vote next Wednesday
on whether to adopt a series of policy-oriented
goals for the year — benchmarks to be
achieved by December concerning historic
preservation, public transportation, business
regulation and other key issues. Details are still
being finalized, and residents have until tomor-
row to provide feedback on draft goals available at dupontcircleanc.net.
Smith explained his rationale for formal
goals in an appearance before the Dupont Circle Citizens Association Monday night. He
said he and his colleagues often get so consumed by their monthly responsibilities —
weighing in on individual public space permits, specific alcohol license applications, et
cetera — that they don’t spend enough time on
“the big-picture policy items that all of us are
probably most interested in.”
“There’s a certain way in which you’re just
dealing with your inbox,” said commissioner
Abigail Nichols, who also appeared at the citi-
zens association meeting.
Smith said commissioners plan to begin
holding quarterly meetings devoted to their
policy advocacy. The commission will also be
rebuilding its committee structure around the
goals once they’re finalized.
“What I don’t want to see is committees
that are meeting for the sake of meeting,”
Smith said. “My expectation is that they will
be goal-oriented and action-oriented.”
In an interview with The Current, Smith
said his personal policy interests include
exploring how to address residential parking
shortages and reassessing regulations on latenight businesses that serve alcohol. “You could
imagine there being certain stipulations associated with later hours that were standardized
across the neighborhood,” he said.
Aside from Smith, the commissioner who
was most vocal about his policy priorities on
Monday was Mike Silverstein. He wants to
focus on public transportation by bringing
more DC Circulator service and other shuttle
buses through the neighborhood. One particular idea he’s pushing is a Circulator route
between U Street and the Lincoln Memorial,
which was supported by local neighborhood
commissions but turned down by the D.C.
Department of Transportation as duplicative of
existing transit service.
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Rock Creek Park, its rear glass walls looking down on
Normanstone Valley and a world of green. Now the
embassy at 3301 Massachusetts Ave. has turned much
greener inside too.
Embassy staff last week celebrated their new Platinum rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design system. That’s the Green Building Council’s highest certification level, and — even more
impressively — Finland’s is the first embassy in the
United States to achieve it. The rating signifies a range of
efforts to cut lighting, water flow and other energy uses
to achieve environmental goals.
But, diplomatic staffers were quick to note, they follow behind the first embassy in the world to achieve
LEED Silver. Coincidentally or not, that’s the U.S.
Embassy in Finland.
“But who’s competing?” said U.S. Ambassador
Bruce Oreck, by video from his post in Helsinki. Oreck
was sporting a blindingly green tie, like many of the
guests who attended the LEED Platinum celebration on
Massachusetts Avenue last Wednesday night.
The Finnish Embassy, built in 1994, has always made
efforts toward sustainability — a movement especially
important to Finland, with its harsh climate and lack of
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Ritva Koukku-Ronde. They began looking for efficiencies, starting with simple efforts to replace incandescent
light bulbs with energy-saving lights.
The embassy was awarded an Energy Star from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2008, and then
a LEED Gold rating — second highest from the building
council — in 2010. It was, as now, the first foreign mission in the U.S. to achieve that level.
But the embassy continued a painstaking effort to up
its game, hoping to achieve LEED Platinum during the
next recertification cycle. Among other things, according
to an embassy fact sheet, the staff:
■ adjusted operating hours to correspond with actual
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and heating on weekends and after 5 p.m. weekdays.
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The Current
Police Report
This is a listing of reports taken
from Jan. 26 through Feb. 1 in
local police service areas.
psa
PSA
101 101
■ downtown
Robbery
■ 1100-1199 block, K St.;
2:48 p.m. Jan. 28 (with gun).
■ 1300-1399 block, I St.; 6:15
p.m. Jan. 30.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 7:06
p.m. Jan. 26.
Theft
■ 700-723 block, 14th St.; 6
a.m. Jan. 26.
■ 1000-1099 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 12:12 p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.; 2:45
p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 1000-1099 block, H St.;
2:48 p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
12:50 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 4:15
p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 1200-1299 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 3:07 a.m. Jan. 28.
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 5:45
p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 1200-1299 block, F St.;
9:40 a.m. Jan. 29.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.; 3
p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
10:15 p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 1200-1299 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 8:14 a.m. Jan. 31.
Theft from auto
■ 1100-1199 block, New York
Ave.; 11:54 a.m. Jan. 30.
psa 102
■ Gallery place
PSA
102
PENN QUARTER
Robbery
■ H and 7th streets; 2:50 p.m.
Jan. 31.
weapon
■ 700-799 block, F St.; 4:46
a.m. Feb. 1 (with knife).
Burglary
■ 500-599 block, 9th St.; 5:03
a.m. Jan. 30.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 900-999 block, 9th St.; 2:44
p.m. Feb. 1.
Theft
■ 400-457 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 4:29 p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 320-399 block, 7th St.; 2:30
a.m. Jan. 27.
■ 800-899 block, 7th St.; 3:44
p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 9:30
p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 400-499 block, 7th St.; 9:30
p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 700-899 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; 1:05 p.m. Jan. 29.
■ 500-599 block, Indiana Ave.;
noon Jan. 30.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 7:11
p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 800-899 block, 9th St.;
12:10 a.m. Jan. 31.
■ 600-699 block, 7th St.;
10:54 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ 700-899 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; 8:54 p.m. Feb. 1.
Theft from auto
■ 400-499 block, 9th St.;
11:45 a.m. Jan. 26.
■ New York Avenue and 9th
Street; 2:33 p.m. Jan. 29.
■ 800-899 block, F St.; 4:08
a.m. Jan. 30.
psa
PSA
201 201
■ chevy chase
Burglary
■ 3741-3899 block, Military
Road; 7:56 p.m. Jan. 30.
Theft from auto
■ 7000-7099 block, Wyndale
St.; 8:14 a.m. Jan. 30.
■ 6922-6999 block, 32nd St.;
8:26 a.m. Jan. 30.
■ 6922-6999 block, 32nd St.;
3:36 p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 5500-5508 block, Nebraska
Ave.; 6:47 p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 5600-5628 block, Connecticut Ave.; 4:13 p.m. Feb. 1.
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
202
Tenleytown / AU Park
Theft
■ 3800-3899 block, Van Ness
St.; 11:38 a.m. Jan. 26.
■ 4500-4537 block, Wisconsin
Ave.; 1:23 p.m. Jan. 26.
Ave.; 12:15 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 4500-4521 block, 45th St.;
3:51 p.m. Jan. 28.
Ave.; 4:34 p.m. Jan. 29.
Ave.; 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29.
Ave.; 7:15 p.m. Jan. 30.
Ave.; 7:40 p.m. Jan. 30.
Ave.; 4:11 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ 4900-4999 block, 44th St.;
7:45 a.m. Feb. 1.
Theft from auto
■ 5200-5299 block, 43rd St.;
10 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 4200-4299 block, Harrison
St.; 6:15 a.m. Jan. 29.
■ 4500-4599 block, Windom
Place; 1 p.m. Jan. 31.
psa 203
■ forest hills / van ness
PSA
203
cleveland park
Burglary
■ 2600-2899 block, Quebec
St.; 12:22 p.m. Jan. 30.
Theft
■ 3600-3699 block, Norton
Place; 2:41 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 4200-4399 block, Connecticut Ave.; 10:01 p.m. Jan. 31.
Theft from auto
St.; 2:04 p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 4000-4199 block, Connecticut Ave.; 9:36 a.m. Jan. 27.
St.; 7:25 p.m. Jan. 31.
psa 204
■ Massachusetts avenue
heights / cleveland park
woodley park / Glover
PSA
204
park / cathedral heights
Sexual abuse
Ave.; 12 a.m. Jan. 26.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 2600-2699 block, 39th St.;
7 p.m. Jan. 26.
Ave.; 3:19 p.m. Jan. 28.
Theft
■ 2806-2899 block, 27th St.;
2:54 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 2400-2798 block, Calvert
St.; 1:13 p.m. Jan. 28.
Ave.; 2:30 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 2600-2699 block, Woodley
Place; 5:09 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 2300-2499 block, 37th St.;
3:50 p.m. Jan. 30.
Theft from auto
■ 4100-4199 block, W St.;
3:58 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 3300-3499 block, 39th St.;
8:03 a.m. Jan. 29.
■ 3300-3499 block, 39th St.;
8:21 a.m. Jan. 29.
■ 3700-3799 block, 39th St.;
1:54 p.m. Feb. 1.
psa 205
■ palisades / spring valley
PSA
205
Wesley Heights / Foxhall
Theft
■ 4400-4499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 10:35 a.m. Jan.
29.
■ 4400-4499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 2:51 p.m. Jan.
31.
Theft from auto
■ 5200-5299 block, Upton Terrace; 9:26 a.m. Jan. 26.
psa
PSA
206 206
■ georgetown / burleith
weapon
Ave.; 6 a.m. Jan. 30.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 3300-3399 block, Dent
Place; 4:13 p.m. Feb. 1.
Theft
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
2:02 p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 3100-3199 block, N St.;
6:54 p.m. Jan. 26.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
1:54 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
2:23 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 1026-1099 block, 31st St.;
3:33 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
8:22 p.m. Jan. 27.
Ave.; 8:52 p.m. Jan. 27.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
9:56 a.m. Jan. 28.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
6:26 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
6:33 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
7:35 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 3100-3199 block, M St.;
8:08 p.m. Jan. 28.
■ 3800-3899 block, Reservoir
Road; 1:04 a.m. Jan. 29.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
2:45 p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 3100-3199 block, M St.; 5
p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 1026-1099 block, 31st St.;
9:11 p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 1300-1399 block, 35th St.;
3:54 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
2:25 p.m. Feb. 1.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
4:20 p.m. Feb. 1.
Theft from auto
■ 2900-2999 block, Dumbarton St.; 9:53 a.m. Jan. 26.
Ave.; 12:34 a.m. Jan. 29.
■ 1000-1019 block, 33rd St.;
12:35 p.m. Jan. 30.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery
■ 1500-1549 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 4 a.m. Jan. 26.
weapon
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 10
a.m. Jan. 30 (with knife).
■ 1200-1219 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5 a.m. Feb. 1 (with
knife).
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1800-1899 block, Corcoran
St.; 1:27 a.m. Jan. 27.
Theft
■ 1309-1399 block, 19th St.;
3:12 a.m. Jan. 30.
■ 1500-1523 block, 15th St.;
4:02 p.m. Jan. 30.
■ 1600-1622 block, 19th St.;
1:40 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ 11-15 block, Dupont Circle;
2:12 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ 1400-1499 block, Rhode
Island Ave.; 4:22 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ 1400-1499 block, 14th St.;
7:10 p.m. Jan. 31.
Theft from auto
■ 1600-1699 block, M St.;
12:57 a.m. Jan. 26.
■ Hopkins and P streets; 12:01
a.m. Jan. 31.
■ 18th Street and Massachusetts Avenue; 2:11 a.m. Jan.
31.
■ 1300-1318 block, 19th St.;
5:30 a.m. Jan. 31.
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The commission will meet at 7
p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at Our
Lady Queen of the Americas
Church, California Street and
Phelps Place NW.
For details, visit anc2d.org or
contact davidanc2d01@aol.com.
ANC 2E
ANC 2E
Georgetown
■ Georgetown / cloisters
Cloisters
burleith / hillandale
At the commission’s Feb. 2
meeting:
■ commission chair Ron Lewis
reported that the D.C. Department of
Transportation will try to reduce the
planned eight-month closure of the
Pennsylvania Avenue bridge’s westbound lanes over Rock Creek. The
agency will also turn 26th Street into
a one-way northbound route as a
detour for westbound traffic on
Pennsylvania, but the project will
also adjust signal timing at M Street
and Pennsylvania to benefit drivers
who need to make a U-turn there to
head east on Pennsylvania.
■ commissioners voted 7-0, with
Jeff Jones absent, to support the
2015 Marine Corps Marathon,
which will close the Key Bridge and
M Street from about 6:30 to 10:15
a.m. on Oct. 25. “This is probably
the best-run of all the events we
have go through Georgetown,”
commissioner Bill Starrels said.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to
oppose an Old Georgetown Board
application to construct two new
three-story row houses at 3324 Dent
Place, a vacant lot where a previous
house deteriorated and was ultimately razed. Commissioners said a
new house should share its location,
size and footprint with the single
two-story home that used to stand on
the middle of the property, or at the
very least should remain a detached
home. The project’s architect said
that an old surveyor’s map indicated
that the property was originally two
separate lots, justifying the construction of two homes there today.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support an Old Georgetown Board
application for renovations to 3150
M St. that will transform the former
Nathans restaurant building into a
retail space, with Under Armour as
the likely tenant. The project
includes larger new windows, rear
roof decks, a deeper basement and
other changes. Targeted completion
is the end of 2016.
Commission chair Ron Lewis
expressed concerns with the size of
the windows, but the project architect said they reflect the building’s
1920s heyday. Other commissioners
agreed. “It’s getting it back to the
way it hasn’t been in many, many
years,” said commissioner Bill Starrels.
The commission’s resolution
specifies that its support for the roof
decks is limited to cases like this one
that are unobjectionable from either
a visual or noise perspective.
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, at
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW.
For details, call 202-724-7098 or
visit anc2e.com.
visit anc3d.org.
ANC 3B
ANCPark
3B
Glover
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in
Tenleytown Room I at the Embassy Suites Hotel, Chevy Chase
Pavilion, 4300 Military Road NW.
Agenda items include:
■ announcements/open forum.
■ police report.
■ discussion of and possible vote on
a resolution regarding an Alcoholic
Beverage Control license application for Burger Tap & Shake, 4445
Wisconsin Ave.
■ presentation by Pepco and possible vote on a resolution regarding
possible improvements to the facade
at the Harrison Street substation.
■ presentation regarding proposed
outdoor seating behind Wagshal’s
on Massachusetts Avenue.
■ update regarding proposed renovation of Friendship Park (aka Turtle Park) and possible vote on a resolution.
■ update from American University
on progress toward the completion
of its new law school at Tenley Circle.
For details, visit anc3e.org.
■ Glover Park / Cathedral heights
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at Stoddert Elementary School and Glover Park Community Center, 4001
Calvert St. NW.
For details, call 202-338-2969,
email info@anc3b.org or visit
anc3b.org.
ANC 3C
ANC 3C
Cleveland
Park
■ cleveland park / woodley Park
Woodley
Park
massachusetts avenue heights
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
Cathedral Heights
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the
2nd District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ spring valley / wesley heights
Wesley Heights
palisades / kent / foxhall
p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, in Conference Room 2 at the Sibley
Memorial Hospital Medical
Building, 5215 Loughboro Road
NW.
■ police report.
■ community concerns.
■ presentation on the Marine Corps
Marathon by Mark Williams, operations and security coordinator.
■ presentation by Michael Steiner of
MSKM Architects on a public space
application at 4842 Indian Lane to
permit a 7-foot fence between the
property line and the building
restriction line at the new residence
for the ambassador of Bahrain to the
United States.
■ discussion regarding installation
of a new basketball court at Mann
Elementary School.
■ presentation by contractor Paul
Locher on a public space application
at 4831 Tilden St. to replace and
widen the driveway, to pave over a
portion of the front yard and to
install a new retaining wall in public
space. (The D.C. Department of
Transportation has issued a stopwork order on the property because
the work has been completed without first obtaining approval for the
public space permit.)
■ consideration of commission business, including a motion to move the
commission’s bank account from
Bank of America to PNC.
■ consideration of a motion to establish commission committees on
transportation and zoning.
■ consideration of a motion to
approve commissioner William
Spencer as chair of the Transportation Committee.
■ consideration of a motion to
approve commissioner Alma Gates
as chair of the Zoning Committee.
ANC 3E
ANC 3E
Tenleytown
■ american university park
American
University Park
friendship heights / tenleytown
ANC 3F
ANCHills
3F
Forest
■ Forest hills / North cleveland park
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, at Forest Hills of DC (formerly the
Methodist Home of D.C.), 4901
Connecticut Ave. NW.
visit anc3f.us.
ANC 3/4G
ANCChase
3/4G
Chevy
■ CHEVY CHASE
p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, at the Chevy
Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley
Street NW.
■ announcements.
■ presentation by the D.C. Department of Transportation and discussion of issues such as criteria for
installing speed humps, stop signs
and sidewalks; pothole repair;
reconstruction of the 27th Street
bridge over Broad Branch Creek;
and coordination of planned repair
projects on Military Road, Oregon
Avenue and Broad Branch Road.
■ discussion with D.C. Department
of Transportation pedestrian program coordinator George Branyan
regarding Connecticut Avenue
issues, including pedestrian-activated HAWK lights along the corridor
and a safety study for the area
between Appleton and Legation
streets.
■ discussion of a possible Historic
Preservation Review Board issue
with respect to construction at the
entrance to the Chevy Chase Arcade.
email chevychaseanc3@verizon.
net.
The CurrentW
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VAN NESS: City plan due in March for revitalization of key Connecticut Avenue corridor
From Page 1
radio station WAMU and retail establishments
including Starbucks and Zips Dry Cleaners.
At a community meeting this past Saturday,
planning officials and presenters for the consulting firms Streetsense and HOK Planning
Group provided frank commentary on the
weaknesses of the current corridor. Heather
Arnold of Streetsense began her talk by showing the crowd an image of Bethesda Row —
one of the most recognizable commercial areas
in the region, with, in her words, “a positive
brand identity.”
“You have a brand identity, too,” Arnold
told the roughly 40 residents gathered inside
the University of the District of Columbia law
school. “It’s just not that great.”
Arnold said Van Ness tends to be a neighborhood where tourists go straight to their
hotels, students congregate in their academic
buildings and residents largely keep to themselves in their homes. Because there aren’t
obvious public spaces for gathering and linger-
ing, Arnold believes “the opportunity to create
community is lost.”
Another problem, according to Colin
Greene of HOK Planning Group, is the handful of safe spots on this stretch of Connecticut
Avenue are separated by “great distances of
what I call pedestrian-hostile environments.”
The D.C. Office of Planning is actively
soliciting feedback from community members
about what should and shouldn’t change in
Van Ness. Ideas include enhancing sidewalks
with trees, green space and public seating as
well as attracting a wider range of retailers to
the area. This plan may involve addressing
another point made during Saturday’s meeting,
which is that it’s impossible for Connecticut
Avenue drivers to tell what most businesses on
the street are selling. Consultants said better
signage and the addition of awnings could
“elevate the retail expression.”
Community members can continue to
weigh in on the entire Van Ness Vision project
at vanness.mindmixer.com or planning.dc.
gov/vanness.
GARAGE: AU project approved
From Page 1
time for the fall 2016 semester.
Housing 67 percent of undergrads
on campus was a major condition of
the 2012 campus plan that allows the
university to expand its facilities.
The permitting process and bad
weather have slowed construction,
said attorney Paul Tummonds. If the
dorms are not ready by mid-August
of 2016, “students will have to find
somewhere else to live, and AU has
to know sooner than that,” he said.
Currently, the campus plan limits
construction activity to 7:30 a.m. to
4 p.m.
How did we get here? After the
campus plan was approved, detailed
design work revealed that “structural
limitations and mechanical systems”
required a two-level garage as
opposed to the one-story garage that
appears in original zoning filings,
the university’s David Dower said.
The D.C. zoning administrator
signed off, but the advisory neighborhood commission and some
Westover Place residents cried foul,
appealing to the Board of Zoning
Adjustment to require public review
of the change.
And late last year, both that panel
and the Zoning Commission agreed
that the switch from one story to two
was more than a “minor modification” and that it required a full hearing. American University kept digging. “AU has and will continue to
move forward with construction of
its East Campus … in order to meet
our commitment to provide additional housing for our students,”
Linda Argo, assistant vice president
for external relations, wrote in a
January email.
“Many of these issues could have
been resolved a year ago if AU
engaged in dialogue,” said Alma
Gates of the Spring Valley/Wesley
Heights advisory neighborhood
commission, which filed the initial
appeal.
Her commission, after detailed
deliberations, last month voted 8-2
to conditionally support the revised
garage plan. “The ANC finds the
public interest was served” by having time to review the changes,
Gates said.
Indeed, the practical concerns
seem largely resolved. Along with
the neighborhood commission, the
Westover Place homeowners board
is now in support, especially with
the university’s promise to compensate for any damages.
The group’s main concern now is
that the construction, with its attendant noise, dust and ground disturbance, gets done on schedule. “Further delay in not in our best interest.
It only extends the agony,” board
president Larry Joseph testified.
Zoning Commission member
Peter May said groundwater is often
a concern during construction, but
“it’s something that can be dealt with
by a responsible contractor.” There
would be long-term water issues
only if an underground stream runs
through the property, May said.
Dower said the university is not
aware of any.
In addition to groundwater concerns, the garage changes have also
affected operations. Plans for an
internal bus turnaround were quickly shelved; the university has recently also abandoned its efforts to
accommodate large delivery trucks.
Now, bigger trucks will need to load
and unload on the main campus,
with deliveries to the East Campus
shifted to vehicles that can clear the
10-foot-6-inch height of the ramp.
That drew skepticism from several Westover Place homeowners
who testified in opposition to the
changes. “We were promised that
the depth of the garage was such that
it would accommodate large delivery trucks and buses underground,”
said one, noting that the traffic and
noise would be shifted above
ground.
“We were promised a little village. It’s turning into a city,” said
another, referring to the former parking lot that will now accommodate
dormitory, retail, classroom and
office space as well as cars.
Accepting conditions proposed
by the neighborhood commission,
the university did agree to ban charter buses and motor coaches from
the East Campus. It may still bring
smaller campus shuttles on site to
take students to other parts of the
campus and to the Tenleytown
Metro station.
Just before the Zoning Commission’s 5-0 vote, Tummonds said he
hopes the university has answered
all questions. “We want to be sure
this won’t be appealed. We want to
avoid going through this process
again,” he said.
May said the prolonged review
process highlighted “the importance
of really good communication.”
After this latest glitch, he said, “the
university may want to do more on
the front end.”
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Who should vote?
For much of this country’s history, the right to vote was limited by several factors — race, gender, property and wealth. Intriguingly, while over
time suffrage movements have eliminated each one of those qualifications,
one requirement that wasn’t on the original list has since gained a strong
grip: citizenship.
The citizenship component took hold starting in the 1920s, when antiimmigrant sentiment spiked in the United States, spurred by a new wave
of post-World War I Europeans entering the country. And the rule has held
in most places, though it has no basis in the Constitution nor does any federal law require it.
In recent years, a handful of localities have been reversing course,
allowing non-citizens with legal residence to take part in local elections.
Takoma Park, Md., was on the forefront of the movement, passing legislation in 1992 that allowed city residents who are not U.S. citizens a right to
the polls to choose a mayor and city council. Since then, five other localities — four of them in Maryland, and the fifth in Illinois (Chicago) —
opted to allow some form of non-citizen voting. Now D.C. is considering
following suit.
With initial backing from four colleagues, at-large D.C. Council member David Grosso has introduced a bill that would grant local voting rights
to Washingtonians who have permanent residency status, but not U.S. citizenship. We’re intrigued by his proposal, and we hope his colleagues will
give the idea a full airing.
In announcing his legislation, Mr. Grosso leaned on the concept that
“all politics is local”: “What most District residents care about are the tangible things that impact their day-to-day lives like potholes, playgrounds,
taxes, snow removal, trash collection, red light cameras and more,” he
wrote in a news release. “Unfortunately, not all of our residents have a say
in choosing the officials who make these decisions. In my opinion, that is
unjust.”
We’re advocates for voting in general. In fact, we wish more of our residents who are given ready access to the ballot box would take advantage,
as we’ve seen the difference elected officials can make. We’ll be listening
carefully to the debate over this proposal. We’re inclined to support it.
Time to tackle plane noise
The Current has reported over the years about Palisades residents protesting excessive aircraft noise. The neighborhood’s citizens association
has long had a committee dedicated to the issue, with activists keeping an
eye on flight paths, hours of operation and other related matters.
Concerns have also arisen from other Northwest neighborhoods. The
Citizens Association of Georgetown recently joined a coalition of communities — the Communities for Smart Airport Growth — which is pushing
for measures to reduce the noise of planes landing and taking off at Ronald
Reagan Washington National Airport.
Now D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has joined in the discussion.
We hope her participation can make a difference.
Ms. Norton spoke out at a congressional committee hearing last month,
asking what the Federal Aviation Administration can do about the plane
noise in neighborhoods including Foxhall, Georgetown and the Palisades.
Told that the Environmental Protection Agency sets limits on aircraft
noise, the delegate pledged to follow up with that department.
Our congressional representative also asked about having pilots fly over
the Potomac River, rather than residential communities. This is a mitigation approach the Palisades Citizens Association has encouraged, and
we’re pleased to hear Ms. Norton advocating the idea. It’s not a new concept, but it’s a policy that is often not followed, and many residents would
cheer its enforcement.
In fact, according to Del. Norton’s office, a shift in the industry’s means
of navigating the skies — from radar tower use to satellite navigation —
has led to more pilots following routes over neighborhoods, rather than the
river. In a news release she says that a lot of work went into the river solution. If the path has been abandoned, residents certainly deserve an answer
on why. We’d also like to hear whether it can be reinstated.
In seeking to address the river routing and other issues, Ms. Norton is
planning a town-hall meeting on the matter. She will invite D.C. residents
as well as representatives of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration. We appreciate Del. Norton’s attention to the matter. We look forward to reports on her progress.
Pandas, not panic, at the Zoo …
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ast spring, violence erupted outside of the
National Zoo on Connecticut Avenue.
Two teenagers were wounded when gunfire
flared among crowds of young people gathered at the
Zoo during Easter Monday, the annual family event
that draws thousands.
Dozens of teenagers, who police said were carrying on beefs from other neighborhoods elsewhere,
spilled onto the street and into nearby Metro stations
and buses.
It was ugly and it
prompted calls to shut
down such events and to
install metal detectors
on the otherwise peaceful, green grounds.
Despite the tendency in our post-9/11 world to do
just that, the Zoo to its credit is taking a more measured approach.
As NBC4 first reported this week, the Zoo is not
closing itself off with sealed entrances, body searches and other aspects of “security theater” that have
become so familiar.
For big events — not the ordinary, day-to-day
operations — the Zoo will have available modest
security measures.
“We’re going to be implementing access control
similar to what you’d see at museums, at sporting
events around town,” said director Dennis Kelly
during an interview on Monday. “We’ll be doing
bag checks and other measures to make sure that all
of our families and members are safe.” Some
entrances may be adjusted to better control entry
and exits.
Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh met
with Kelly on Monday to go over the plan and came
away encouraged. Cheh said people were frightened
by the violence, but she added that clamping down
on the Zoo’s openness would be “over the top.”
Cheh told NBC4 “our aim is to keep the Zoo
open to the public. … I think it will be minimum,
but nevertheless necessary.”
Neighbors of the National Zoo have held meetings about their security concerns.
Local advisory neighborhood commissioner Lee
Brian Reba has been calling for at least minimum
security checks rather than wide-open gates. And
Peter Brusoe, president of the Woodley Park Community Association, has been at security meetings,
too.
On Monday, Brusoe said he still wants police
from the Zoo, Metro and the city to ensure they’re
working together at any big Zoo event. Right now,
he’s satisfied with the plan that will be phased in
during the spring.
“The Zoo is an amazing neighbor,” he told us.
“Between the ZooLights, Brew at the Zoo, Boo at
the Zoo, all these events are great, bring a lot of
people into the community and there’s been no
problems for us.”
He said there was no
need to clamp down on
the Zoo’s openness.
“What’s great about
the Zoo is it’s one of three zoos in the country with
open access, and that’s what we like about [the security] plan. It strikes the right balance. It still keeps
the Zoo open, people can still jog through here, take
their kids to see the panda bears, but also at highrisk times there can be security here.”
Yes — pandas, not panic.
■ Help wanted. The DC Fiscal Policy Institute is a
strong advocate for government programs that lift
people out of poverty and help the struggling middle
class stay there.
The organization has two openings on its staff
and is looking for advocates to fill them.
Director Ed Lazere says he needs to replace Elissa Silverman, who won an at-large seat on the D.C.
Council in last November’s elections, and Jenny
Reed, who left the institute to be deputy budget
director for Mayor Muriel Bowser.
“I’m ecstatic that we have two people who were
sitting in our offices [who are] now in key positions
in city government,” Lazere told us.
He said the institute is looking for staffers who
are “eager to join DCFPI’s work to reduce income
inequality and increase opportunity for DC residents, through thoughtful public policy solutions.”
The job description says the staffers will direct
advocacy for “budget and public policy issues
affecting low- and moderate-income DC residents,
and help us advocate for better housing, education,
healthcare, and other services.”
That’s a lot to do.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
Notebook
Letters to
the Editor
Unpaved trolley trail
offers unique option
I write in response to Kyle
Yost’s letter “Paving trolley trail
would benefit public” [The Current, Jan. 28]. He suggests that
many people who may not know
about the trolley trail are left out
of the discussions about what to
do with it.
The Trail Enhancement Survey
was made by a committee of the
Palisades Citizens Association. It
encouraged responses from all
over the District of Columbia, but
as would be expected, of the 806
replies to the survey, 83 percent
were from the Palisades, Foxhall
and Georgetown areas. Certainly,
as Mr. Yost says, all D.C. residents “stand to benefit” from
enhancements to the trail. The
question is, what should those
enhancements be?
Mr. Yost describes a host of
possible users: “Strollers, scooters,
Rollerbladers, kids’ bikes with
training wheels, Segways, road
bikes, et cetera.” These should be
accommodated by “a paved or
concrete surface,” he says. Why
do we need another paved trail
parallel to and only 600 to 700
feet from the Capital Crescent
Trail?
The survey found that, of the
five surface material options
assessed, the most favored option
for the trolley trail would be “no
change from present” — basically,
keep it as a grassy surface.
Many who have walked the
trail in its present condition are
surprised that such a rural country
lane atmosphere could still exist
in the District. The views from
parts of the trolley trail are beautiful, as Mr. Yost says. They are
now enjoyed in relative peace and
quiet by hikers, ambling walkers,
birdwatchers and the occasional
mountain biker. Why should we
give this tranquility up to fastmoving folks (some, according to
his vision, even motor-driven) and
cries of “On your left! On your
right!”
A well-drained, well-kept as-is
trolley trail, running through his-
toric early suburban areas and taking us back in time, will provide a
unique D.C. experience for all
those who seek it out.
Don Velsey
Foxhall Village
Thanks for covering
recent parking ticket
A day after deplaning from a
long flight from Southeast Asia, I
dropped by to visit a friend in an
assisted living facility on Connecticut Avenue. Intending a
quick visit and not quite recovered
from jet lag, I inadvertently
parked my vintage Beetle in a bus
zone. My friend was feeling rather
well, and the visit was extended to
the tune of a $100 parking ticket.
The next day, I dutifully sent a
check to Adjudication Services.
Four days later I received in the
mail the check and the ticket with
a note that the fine had been paid.
My eternal thanks to that
unknown delightful individual
who choose to perform a random
act of kindness.
Carroll Green
Manor Park
The Current
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To retain families, it’s the schools, stupid
VIEWPOINT
evelyn boyd simmons
I
’m writing in response to The Current’s Jan. 21 editorial “Reversing family flight.” Mindful of the oftquoted admonition of Bill Clinton’s presidential
campaign, here’s what D.C. leaders (and The Current)
should acknowledge: For middle-class families, it’s the
schools, stupid.
The D.C. chief financial officer’s study cited in your
editorial points to high rates of middle-class flight in
and around downtown within the first four years after a
child’s birth. I know many middle-class families that
have left D.C. in general and my Logan Circle neighborhood in particular.
The Advisory Committee on Boundaries, Feeders
and Student Assignment Policy process last year confirmed what many of us families in the trenches already
knew: Parents and families across the city in all eight
wards still want, need and expect coherent, efficient,
strong feeder systems of high-quality schools of right in
every corner of D.C. — preschool through 12th grade.
It makes sense to maintain a robust set of charter and
D.C. Public Schools out-of-boundary school options
that complement this system — not that replace part or
all of it. Families and communities have spoken. Who’s
listening?
Many of us presumed a strong D.C. Public Schools
system was the goal of mayoral control and education
reform. After years of attempting to assist in achieving
this goal as an engaged parent and civic leader, I reluctantly realized this was never, in fact, the goal. Far from
being the goal of reform, a strong, quality end-to-end
school system is, at best, something reformers seem to
have thought might be one possible (though improbable) byproduct of reform. Rather than a commitment to
ensuring all corners of the city have excellent public
schools of right at all levels, raising test scores and
expanding “high-quality seats” seem to have been the
imperatives. Worthy goals both, but they alone will not
lead to a stronger school system of right. Solid feeder
systems of schools of right may be an idea that’s hopelessly out of vogue among reformers in D.C. — some
of whom continue to decry “zip code as destiny” in a
city with a near-equal number of students in charters as
Letters to
the Editor
Development placing
Dupont history at risk
The National Trust for Historic
Preservation’s move from Dupont
Circle raises many key questions.
First, why does one of the most
prestigious nonprofit organizations
in the U.S. vacate one of the most
notable, beautiful, prime area buildings — one especially keyed to its
mission, moreover — and move to
a distant, homelier site. Moving
from the magnificent beaux-arts
Mellon mansion at the corner of
Massachusetts Avenue to the Watergate complex on the Potomac River
is abandoning “splendid” for
“splendor.”
We are talking “high art” here.
The National Trust occupied tycoon
and art connoisseur Andrew Mellon’s chateau, once home to the art
DCPS and a large percentage of DCPS students in outof-boundary schools. But the inconvenient truth
remains that for middle-class families in particular,
quality and predictability are must-haves. When they
can’t get it, they leave.
D.C.’s rough-and-tumble history of mayoral control
and education reform has permitted at least two completely different worldviews to p‎ rogress in tandem in a
kind of free-for-all competition. One idea is we need a
system of great walkable schools that residents have a
right to attend. Another idea is we are all better off with
that right replaced by a more or less equal opportunity
to a high-stakes gambit for a seat in any one of several
schools for what may be any one of several of our children. Many parents — especially middle-class parents
with the wherewithal to leave — do not have the stomach for this kind of uncertainty and school chance.
After seven years of reform, families brave the vagaries of the lottery, and winning means managing logistics and the expense of traversing the city twice daily.
There are glaring and unexplained quality gaps between
schools with similar demographics — and a culture that
is only just beginning to show signs of giving parent
engagement its due. Before we can assess progress, we
must ask what we were seeking. If it was an end-to-end
system of schools of right, don’t we have to admit
we’re missing the mark?
We must confront the fact that not making a commitment to a strong D.C. Public Schools system will
not produce one. Neither improved proficiency rates,
increased enrollment nor any of the other proof points
that reform is working will result in a strong system of
schools of right if we don’t set about creating one.
Without a sense of purpose and commitment, improved
education in isolated pockets and school chance cannot
lead to a strong system of schools.
We need a vision, strategy and plan for creating a
system of great schools of right that serves each and
every corner of each and every neighborhood. The
political will and skill must be mustered to forge a
durable consensus to make whatever policy, structural
and governance changes are necessary. If there is broad
agreement among education experts and elected officials that this should not be the goal or that it is
unachievable, the public ought to be officially notified.
Evelyn Boyd Simmons is a Logan Circle resident.
collection that became the foundation for the National Gallery of Art.
One can imagine what the interior
decoration of that architectural treasure looked like. From there to the
Watergate is the distance between
“the glory that was Greece to the
grandeur that was Rome.” Worse
still, turning the Mellon building
over to the tender mercies of the
American Enterprise Institute
launched a “demolition derby”
inside that majestic architectural
treasure trove, initiating one of the
most prolonged, massive guttings
seen in Dupont Circle history. What
comes to mind is a squadron of
“renovators” stomping through the
Louvre wearing “12-league boots.”
What is happening parallels
other desecrations taking place in
Dupont Circle, where the winds of
architectural change have reached
gale force. Examples include the
“conversion” of the Patterson mansion — that magnificent white-marble palace less than a hundred yards
from the Mellon building — into 90
rabbit-warren apartments (the bulk
of them in a new addition), and the
threatened elimination of the beautiful St. Thomas’ churchyard park to
accommodate a bulky condominium building.
In short, the depletion of Dupont
Circle architectural treasures continues apace. Why? Why? Why? The
answers are simple — Location!
Location! Location! Money!
Money! Money! Another reason is
that nobody seems to care — not
the Historic Preservation Review
Board, nor the National Trust for
Historic Preservation! Clearly,
when “preservation” versus “dollars” comes into play in this city,
preservation loses every time.
What’s next, one wonders. The
Sulgrave Club? The Woman’s
National Democratic Club? The
Cosmos Club?
Jim McGrath
Chair,
D.C. Tenants’ Advocacy Coalition
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British School of
Washington
Here at the British School of
Washington we have many sporting
opportunities. One of the newest
sports clubs is rugby. Rugby is a
tough sport built around camaraderie and friendship. After coming to
BSW I was very keen to have
rugby become one of the school’s
main sports.
We have a large although scattered age group of people eager to
play, from Year 7 all the way to
Year 13. I really want to instill this
great sport into the school. It has a
unique feature to it. Rugby isn’t all
about the result like in soccer or
football — it is more about the feeling of coming off the pitch knowing
you gave everything you could and
that you have the cuts, bumps and
bruises to prove it. Unlike the other
sports one person cannot win the
game; it must be a team effort. This
is why I have started to help build a
club at the school.
Since we are an international
school, we deal with friends departing regularly, yet through rugby,
these friendships last a lifetime and
can be kept into later years. This is
why rugby club, though still young,
is great and why it offers something
special to our education.
— Archie Cullen,
Year 13 Berkley (12th-grader)
Eaton Elementary
There are many ways the fifthgraders are studying the Civil War.
In class, to give us background, we
studied westward expansion in the
1840s. We learned about conflicts
over slavery that led to the Civil
War. We heard about the battles of
the Civil War such as Fort Sumter,
Bull Run and Gettysburg.
School DISPATCHES
We went on field trips to Tudor
Place and Lincoln’s Cottage. At
Tudor Place, we learned that the
owners let Union officers stay there
during the war so that the house
would not be turned into a hospital.
We learned what life was like then
by going into real rooms and looking at artifacts. We walked around
Georgetown and saw historical sites
and graveyards. We heard the stories of spies, slaves and other people during that time.
President Lincoln lived at Lincoln’s Cottage during the summer.
He went there for fresh air, a safe
place away from the battles, and a
relaxing place for his son Tad to
recover from typhoid fever. We
heard about Lincoln’s daily commute to the White House and all the
people he interacted with: soldiers,
contraband slaves, Walt Whitman
and visitors. The visit helped us to
think of President Lincoln more as
person than as a president.
We had a guest speaker from the
African American Civil War Museum who did a presentation called
“The Glorious March to Freedom”
about the black soldiers. Mr. Jones
help us understand how AfricanAmericans made the Union victory
possible.
— Liam Hansen, Dillon Johnson
and Benjamin Schwartz,
fifth-graders
Garrison Elementary
This week, we celebrated Literacy Night. Students and parents
enjoyed reading and writing themed
activities in a fun-filled program put
together by Ms. Parker.
Last week, we celebrated Col-
lege Week. Students decorated their
classroom in the theme of a college,
heard presentations by current college students, and took part in a pep
rally on Friday. Classrooms won
prizes for best decorations and best
college chant. Thank you to Ms.
Tyburski, Ms. Rivera, Ms. Tomack
and Ms. Samball for coordinating
the event.
We are in preparations for our
second round of APTT conferences.
These are group conferences in
which teachers share class data with
families and teach activities that
promote literacy and math skills at
home. They are part of a larger initiative of family engagement made
possible through a grant by the
Flamboyan Foundation. Teachers
have made home visits to families
and increased the amount of positive home communications. We are
excited to make the connection
between home and school that
much stronger. Ms. Tomack and
Ms. Tyburski have been instrumental in organizing this initiative.
We are excited to have firstgrade teacher Ms. Adu return! She
is coming back from maternity
leave and has been missed by staff
and students.
— Garrison community
Hardy Middle School
It’s that time of year, when
Hardy Middle School students compete in their schoolwide spelling
bee. Students who won from each
classroom’s spelling bee advanced
to the school spelling bee, which
took place in the Georgetown
Library. Standing in front of their
peers, students felt different emotions. Some were excited, some nervous and some confident. The competition began with simple words
and progressed to more challenging
words. Each student approached the
microphone with confidence, then
tried their best to spell the word.
The top speller was Kate Lenegan
in eighth grade. She spelled
“unami” correctly. The runner-up
was Jacob Duffles in eighth grade.
Third place went to seventh-grader
Nomin Gansukh. All three students
will move on to the DCPS Cluster
Bee in late February. Good luck!
— Hannah Fabrigar and
Jasmine Ong, seventh-grader
Hearst Elementary
This year has gotten off to a
great start. All of the secondthrough fifth-graders moved to
classrooms in the new building.
There is also a new main office.
The new classrooms are bigger than
our old ones and we have nice, new
furniture. The new building has
comfortable couches in the hallways that we can sit on during
indoor lineup.
On Jan. 23 the whole school
gathered in the new building’s atrium to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
Some kindergartners, third-graders
and fourth-graders presented at the
meeting. We also talked about the
students who have January and July
birthdays. Principal Thomas also
handed out certificates to students
who haven’t missed a day of school
so far.
For this year, we have new afterschool enrichments. In addition to
journalism, we take Crazy 8s,
which is a math club but it’s fun.
We made catapults and we shot
marshmallows out of them and
measured the distance of how far
they went. Then we got to eat
marshmallows, but not the ones that
fell on the floor. Other enrichments
available are Spanish, guitar, Mad
Science and sewing. We are lucky
to have so many choices!
— Jaylah Jennings, fourth-grader,
and Felseta Daniel, fifth-grader
Holy Trinity School
Holy Trinity students, teachers
and parents just celebrated Catholic
Schools Week. Student Council
planned many fun communitybuilding activities for us.
Monday was Community Service Day, and we went to an assembly in the church to hear about
Catholic Relief Services and Operation Rice Bowl, which helps people
in need in Africa. We also saw a
video about all the service projects
we do throughout the year. On
Wednesday teachers and staff made
breakfast for the parents because it
was Parent Appreciation Day. There
were classroom visits and parents
went to Mass with us. There was
also a spelling bee for fourth
through eighth grades. The three
students who will represent our
school in the next spelling bee are
fifth-grader Cami Bradshaw and
seventh-graders Sophie Myers and
Sarah Myers.
On Teacher Appreciation Day
parents brought breakfast for the
teachers. All of the students got to
pick one teacher to dress like. Friday was Student Appreciation Day,
and all of the students got to wear
pajamas. There was also a bake sale
and pizza for lunch. Parents and
teachers went to Trivia Night to
raise money for the school.
We all loved Catholic Schools
Week!
— Anne-Sophie Gray,
Mackenzie Jenkins and
Daisy Overmyer, third-graders
Key Elementary
On Jan. 22, Key students got to
participate in all kinds of cool
experiments as part of the school’s
Family Science Night. The idea was
to teach kids about scientific principles and help them with their projects for the school science fair,
which will take place in February.
One of the most popular activities was to make a paper airplane
and try to fly it through three hoops
in a row. “I learned that how
straight your plane goes depends on
the size of the wingspan,” said Bryant Holdren, a fifth-grader. Another
experiment was to make a “BugBot” by attaching two wires to a
battery and a motor, then putting the
motor on a fake bug so that it would
move. Volunteers from the Children’s Science Center Museum
Without Walls helped us with these
experiments.
Principal David Landeryou said
several hundred parents and students attended the event. Why was
it so popular, we asked? “Key has
always had a tradition of great support of our science program and so
we had a strong turnout,” he said. It
was also really fun.
— Rafae Sandhu and
William Swift, third-graders
Maret School
In second-grade music class, we
play games with short songs. We
practice them a couple of times and
then play a game. We sometimes
play instruments. We do steady
beats and make little rhymes to go
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Seabirds: Eagles capture
fifth straight league title
By BRIAN KAPUR
As Gonzaga’s 400-yard relay
team prepared for the final event at
the Washington Metropolitan Prep
School Swim Dive League championship Saturday, the announcer read
the team scores.
The Eagles had a narrow lead
over Georgetown Prep, and the race
would determine the boys champion.
“This is what’s it’s all about,”
said senior Brendan Novak. “Seeing
the whole team behind the blocks,
we were just hyped up and ready to
go.”
As Gonzaga junior Ryan Baker
and Prep’s final swimmer motored
toward the wall, Eagles coach Josh
Klotz couldn’t contain his nerves.
He jumped up and down on a narrow
platform near the pool as they
approached the finish line.
The touches were too close to
see, and a brief hush fell over the
pool as everyone turned to the scoreboard for the result. Moments later,
the Gonzaga faithful erupted in celebration as they learned that Baker
had reached the wall 0.35 seconds
faster than his Prep counterpart for
first place.
The relay win gave the Eagles a
reason to jump for joy — a fifth
straight WMPSSDL title — as they
knocked off the Little Hoyas 478399 at Stone Ridge.
“It’s awesome,” said Novak.
“This has been our meet for a while
now and we want to keep it going for
as long as possible.”
The Eagles’ 400-yard relay squad
— Novak, Baker and juniors Jack
Cosgrove and John Heinemann —
came into the meet with extra motivation after Prep’s squad narrowly
beat them earlier this season.
“I was hoping for a chance to get
revenge,” said Baker. “I was really
lucky to have a good swim and outtouch them.”
The fiery Eagles set a meet record
with a time of 3 minutes and 6.161
seconds, breaking the old mark of
3:09.31 set in 2009.
But winning the meet required a
total team effort. In individual races,
Novak won the 200-yard freestyle,
Baker took gold in the 100-yard
backstroke and silver in the 100-yard
freestyle, and Novak won the 500yard freestyle. The 200-yard freestyle relay squad (Baker, senior Tom
Benson, Novak and senior Danny
May) won their event, and the 200yard medley team (junior Jase Ash-
The Washington Metropolitan Prep School Swim Dive League championship came down to the final event,
where Gonzaga’s 400-yard relay squad edged Georgetown Prep’s swimmers by 0.35 seconds for the win.
kin, sophomore Devin McNulty,
Heinemann and May) earned silver.
The Eagles’ divers — sophomore
Tristan Warder and senior Vincent
Tramonte — earned fourth and seventh places, respectively, to give
Gonzaga 31 points before the swimming portion of the meet began.
Elsewhere on the boys side, St.
Albans took fourth place with 163
points, St. John’s earned 10th with
110 and Sidwell finished 12th with a
score of 71.
The top local medalists aside
from Gonzaga’s standouts were
Sidwell’s Gavin Springer, who took
bronze in the 200-yard freestyle and
silver in the 500-yard freestyle; St.
Albans junior James Flood, who
grabbed silver in the 100-yard
breastwork and bronze in the 200yard IM; Sidwell’s Bennett Magliano, who won the diving event; and
Georgetown Day’s Matthew Callander, who came in third in the 100meter butterfly.
On the girls side, Holton-Arms
won the meet with 290 points, and
Stone Ridge, led by Olympic gold
medalist Katie Ledecky, came in
fifth. The highest placing Northwest
school was St. John’s, in sixth place
with 173 points. Sidwell came in
seventh with 142, and National
Cathedral earned 10th with 92.
Several local girls medaled.
Sidwell’s Taylor Knibb won the 500yard freestyle and earned bronze in
the 200-yard freestyle, and the
Quakers’ Olya Kislovskiy took
bronze in diving. Also, Cathedral
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Cubs’ depth outpaces NCS in win
By BRIAN KAPUR
Visitation senior Kate Delaney was a force in the post for the Cubs. The forward
grabbed seven rebounds and scored six points in the win Thursday night.
Simple arithmetic can show that eight is
more than two. But on Thursday night, National Cathedral’s talented duo of Marta Sniezek
and Isabella Alarie made the math tough on
Visitation’s girls basketball team.
The pair’s skills stretched through three
quarters, but ultimately the Cubs outlasted
Cathedral with their depth of talent, winning
55-48.
Visitation coach Mike McCarthy said the
Eagles may have had the two best players on
the floor, but the Cubs had the next best eight.
Sniezek and Alarie combined for 38 of the
Eagles’ 48 points, with just two other Cathedral players contributing on the scoreboard.
For the Cubs, though, six different players
scored, led by junior Alexis Gray, who had 24
points. Sophomore Maeve Carroll scored 11
points, senior guard Katie Robey made seven,
and senior forward Kate Delaney scored six.
The win was a turning point in the race for
the ISL regular-season crown, as both teams
entered the game undefeated in conference
play. The victory puts Visitation in the driver’s
seat for the league title, giving the team a tiebreaker advantage. Cathedral will have a
chance to force a tie when the teams battle
Monday night at Visitation.
“Knowing that we’re not done yet, but in
the first-place position, really helps,” said
Gray. “We can’t let down and have to keep
pushing forward.”
Cathedral started Thursday’s game well,
quickly building to an 8-0 lead and then pushing it to 16-7 when Alarie scored on a threepoint play.
But Visitation found its footing when Gray
hit her own two three-pointers to spark a rally
and bring the score to 26-26 at halftime.
“The coaches have been pushing us to play
better defense,” said Gray. “Once we started
getting rebounds and forcing turnovers, it
turned around and we started scoring.”
After the break, Visitation jumped on the
Eagles with a 7-0 scoring run. Sniezek and
Alarie answered with their own run to tie the
game at 36.
After that, the Eagles ran out of gas, with
Sniezek and Alarie playing every minute of the
game, while McCarthy kept his starters fresh
with substitutions.
“We knew that they were getting tired, so
we just had to push the ball down the court,
and I tried to run down there to get breakaways,” said Carroll.
The teams will face off again at 5:45 p.m.
Monday at Visitation.
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Northwest Sports
Wilson transfer finds her niche on the mat
By BRIAN KAPUR
When Wilson wrestling coach
Brandon Wims held a meeting to
gauge interest before this season,
junior Katya Ekimian, who had
transferred to the school from overseas, was in the room hoping to earn
a spot.
“We’ve had a girl come out for
the team before, so I knew what to
expect,” said Wims. “I didn’t know
that she was going to stick it out
through the year, because in past
years we had interest from girls but
they never stuck it out. She just has
great willpower and wants to be
good. She works hard and gives it all
she has.”
At first, Ekimian heard some
jokes about her choice. “There were
a lot of, ‘Oh, what are you doing in
this room, this isn’t art club.’” But
she took it in stride. “It was really
funny,” she said.
And as the season has progressed,
she has definitely come to fit in. “It’s
not awkward anymore,” she said.
While Wilson has welcomed
Ekimian, not all opponents have
been as accommodating. She said
that during a match against St. John’s
on Jan. 8, the Cadets refused to face
her.
“They wouldn’t let me wrestle
against them since I was a girl,” she
said. “So I didn’t compete.”
When Wilson participated in a
three-team competition last Wednesday at Gonzaga against the Eagles
and St. John’s, Ekimian heard the
Cadets were again going to refuse to
wrestle her. But that moment of
decision never came, as the meet
was cut short after a Wilson grappler
suffered a back sprain.
At that meet St. John’s wrestling
coach Karl Danso explained the Jan
8. situation with Ekimian, citing an
archaic school rule that wouldn’t
allow competition against a girl.
“It’s kind of a sticky situation,”
he said. “There is an old rule that it
wouldn’t be allowed. It was a St.
John’s rule; it’s very cloudy.”
Wilson’s Katya Ekimian is part of
the Tigers’ growing program.
“We probably would’ve wrestled
[her] today,” he added. “The plan
today was to wrestle.”
Ekimian came to Wilson with
wrestling experience. She became
interested in the sport after watching
her older brother, Alyosha, compete
for their former school in Cairo.
“My brother was a pretty good
wrestler and got me into it,” she said.
That pushed Ekimian to take to
the mat, where she succeeded while
competing against girls. She said she
medaled in her first two years —
winning bronze as a freshman in a
Dubai tournament and silver as a
sophomore in New Delhi. That
growth helped her develop a passion
for the sport.
“It was a lot of fun because my
freshman year I wrestled this one
girl who was the varsity captain of
the other team — I lost to her when
I was pinned in five seconds,” she
recalled. “Then I came back my
sophomore year and I pinned her.”
Before moving to Egypt with her
family — because her mother, Elizabeth Arrott, had a journalism job
with Voice of America — Ekimian
attended Murch Elementary and
Washington Latin. When the family
returned to D.C. last year, she headed to Wilson. Along with acclimating back to the culture, Ekimian had
to make two big changes on the mat.
In Egypt, she competed under the
rules of Greco-Roman wrestling,
which is more physical and relies on
tossing your opponent around. The
United States uses folkstyle, which
doesn’t allow for hard slams or locking your hands around an opponent.
Ekimian didn’t have much trouble
with that transition, but competing
against boys has been more difficult.
“It is just hard wrestling guys,”
she said. “Being 160 [pounds], the
guys are huge, so it’s hard to match
their muscle.”
But she hasn’t gotten discouraged. “I’ve been losing every match
I’ve had, but it’s really fun and I’m
going to keep it up for my senior
year,” she said.
And she has high hopes for the
remainder of this season and beyond.
“I hope to make it to the state championships and I hope to win a
match,” she said. “I just want to have
fun, improve myself and come back
next year stronger.”
Ekimian has benefited from the
leadership of co-captains Joey
Keegan and Sean Swartz.
“They’re phenomenal leaders,”
said Wims. “They’re great role models and examples for the other kids.”
At Wilson, Ekimian is part of a
growing program that’s been around
for five years — the only varsity
wrestling team in D.C. Public
Schools.
“This year we’re making strides,”
said Wims. “The past two years we
had maybe eight kids on the team.
This year we started with 25. … The
kids are working their butts off. We
have no feeder program, and we are
teaching the basics going against
private schools.”
With the improvements Wims
has seen, he’s optimistic as the squad
moves toward the D.C. Classic.
“We’ll fare pretty well,” he said.
“We have a few kids that can place
in the tournament. We’ll fight.”
SWIMMING: Cathedral freshman earns bronze
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Page Lester placed third in the 500-yard freestyle.
The strong team showing by St. John’s included several standouts: The Cadets’ 200-yard medley relay team
(junior Sydney Kirsch, freshman Sarah Luigard, junior
Claire Luigard and junior Catherine Gregory) took
Scores
Boys basketball
Coolidge 56, Anacostia 54
Maret 65, Potomac School 43
Bell 67, Walls 62
H.D. Woodson 59,
Roosevelt 57
Wilson 58, Ballou 46
Field 50, Hebrew Academy 29
Sandy Spring 43, Burke 33
Saint James 68, GDS 35
St. John’s 79, Gonzaga 59
St. Stephen’s 67, St. Albans 55
Field 73,
Washington Christian 54
Covenant Life 50, Field 35
Potomac School 46, Sidwell 38
Roosevelt 52, Ballou 46
Coolidge 72, Bell 42
St. Albans 54, Bullis 49
bronze, and the same squad grabbed third in the 400-yard
freestyle relay. Claire Luigard earned silver in the 200yard IM, Kirsch earned third in the 50-yard freestyle and
Gregory grabbed second in the 100-yard freestyle.
The swimmers have another big meet this weekend at
Metros, which will pit the area’s best against one another
at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center in Boyds, Md.
Field 57, WIS 42
Gonzaga 74, Paul VI 72
Maret 39, St. Andrew’s 35
St. John’s 58, Ryken 50
Wilson 63, Cardozo 62
Sidwell 52, Landon 47
Patterson 73, Roosevelt 70
Lake Clifton 60, Coolidge 54
Paul VI 75, St. John’s 55
DeMatha 66, Gonzaga 61
St. Andrew’s 52, GDS 45
Girls basketball
Anacostia 65, Coolidge 20
Wilson 61, Ballou 58
H.D. Woodson 61,
Roosevelt 8
Bell 70, Walls 10
Sidwell 78,
Potomac School 50
Visitation 48, Holy Child 44
Maret 51, Flint Hill 50
WIS 33, McLean School 16
Visitation 55, Cathedral 48
Seton 67, St. John’s 53
Ballou 53, Roosevelt 13
Bell 64, Coolidge 24
Wilson 63, Cardozo 16
Sidwell 49, Episcopal 37
St. John’s 73, Ryken 69
Burke 47,
Washington Waldorf 24
St. John’s 79, O’Connell 70
Covenant Life 40, Burke 28
The Current
Brief Summary
Carefully read the Medication Guide before you
or your child start taking GRASTEK and each time
you get a refill. This Brief Summary does not take
the place of talking to your doctor about your
medical condition or treatment. Talk with your
doctor or pharmacist if there is something you do
not understand or you want to learn more about
GRASTEK.
What is GRASTEK?
GRASTEK is a prescription medicine used for
sublingual (under the tongue) immunotherapy to
treat Timothy and related grass pollen allergies
that can cause sneezing, runny or itchy nose,
stuffy or congested nose, or itchy and watery
eyes. GRASTEK may be prescribed for persons 5
through 65 years of age who are allergic to grass
pollen.
GRASTEK is taken for about 12 weeks before
grass pollen season and throughout grass pollen
season. GRASTEK may also be taken daily for 3
years to provide a sustained effect for a fourth
year in which you do not have to take GRASTEK.
GRASTEK is NOT a medication that gives
immediate relief for symptoms of grass allergy.
Who should not take GRASTEK?
You or your child should not take GRASTEK if:
• You or your child has severe, unstable or
uncontrolled asthma
• You or your child had a severe allergic
reaction in the past that included any of these
symptoms:
o Trouble breathing
o Dizziness or fainting
o Rapid or weak heartbeat
• You or your child has ever had difficulty with
breathing due to swelling of the throat or
upper airway after using any sublingual
immunotherapy before.
• You or your child has ever been diagnosed
with eosinophilic esophagitis.
• You or your child is allergic to any of the
inactive ingredients contained in GRASTEK.
The inactive ingredients contained in
GRASTEK are: gelatin, mannitol and sodium
hydroxide.
What should I tell my doctor before taking
GRASTEK?
Your doctor may decide that GRASTEK is
not the best treatment if:
• You or your child has asthma, depending
on how severe it is.
• You or your child suffers from lung disease
such as chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD).
• You or your child suffers from heart disease
such as coronary artery disease, an irregular
heart rhythm, or you have hypertension that is
not well controlled.
• You or your daughter is pregnant, plans to
become pregnant during the time you will be
taking GRASTEK, or is breast-feeding.
• You or your child is unable or unwilling to
administer auto-injectable epinephrine to treat
a severe allergic reaction to GRASTEK.
• You or your child is taking certain
medicines that enhance the likelihood of a
severe reaction, or interfere with the treatment
of a severe reaction. These medicines include:
o beta blockers and alpha-blockers (prescribed
for high blood pressure)
o cardiac glycosides (prescribed for heart
failure or problems with heart rhythm)
o diuretics (prescribed for heart conditions
and high blood pressure)
o ergot alkaloids (prescribed for migraine
headache)
o monoamine oxidase inhibitors or tricyclic
antidepressants (prescribed for depression)
o thyroid hormone (prescribed for low
thyroid activity).
You should tell your doctor if you or your
child is taking or has recently taken any other
medicines, including medicines obtained without
a prescription and herbal supplements. Keep
a list of them and show it to your doctor and
pharmacist each time you get a new supply of
GRASTEK. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for
advice before taking GRASTEK.
symptoms of a serious allergic reaction.
If you tolerate the first dose of GRASTEK, you
or your child will continue GRASTEK therapy at
home by taking one tablet every day. Children
should be given each tablet of GRASTEK by
an adult who will watch for any symptoms of a
serious allergic reaction.
Take GRASTEK as prescribed by your doctor until
the end of the treatment course. If you forget to
take GRASTEK, do not take a double dose. Take
the next dose at your normal scheduled time
the next day. If you miss more than one dose
of GRASTEK, contact your healthcare provider
before restarting.
What are the possible side effects of GRASTEK?
In children and adults, the most commonly
reported side effects were itching of the
mouth, lips, or tongue, swelling under the
tongue, or throat irritation. These side effects,
by themselves, were not dangerous or lifethreatening.
GRASTEK can cause severe allergic reactions
that may be life-threatening. Symptoms of
allergic reactions to GRASTEK include:
• Trouble breathing
• Throat tightness or swelling
• Trouble swallowing or speaking
• Dizziness or fainting
• Rapid or weak heartbeat
• Severe stomach cramps or pain,
vomiting, or diarrhea
• Severe flushing or itching of the skin
For additional information on the possible side
effects of GRASTEK, talk with your doctor or
pharmacist. You may report side effects to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at
1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
This Brief Summary summarizes the most
important information about GRASTEK. If you
would like more information, talk with your
doctor. You can ask your doctor or pharmacist for
information about GRASTEK that was written for
Are there any reasons to stop taking GRASTEK? healthcare professionals. For more information
Stop GRASTEK and contact your doctor if you or go to www.grastek.com or call toll-free at
1-800-622-4477.
your child has any of the following after taking
GRASTEK:
The Medication Guide has been approved by the
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GRASTEK is a prescription medicine that is
placed under the tongue.
• Take the tablet from the blister package after
carefully removing the foil with dry hands.
• Place the tablet immediately under the tongue.
Allow it to remain there until completely
dissolved. Do not swallow for at least
1 minute.
• Do not take GRASTEK with food or beverage.
Food and beverage should not be taken for the
following 5 minutes.
• Wash hands after taking the tablet.
Take the first tablet of GRASTEK in your doctor’s
office. After taking the first tablet, you or your
child will be watched for at least 30 minutes for
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What is the most important information I should
know about GRASTEK?
GRASTEK can cause severe allergic reactions
that may be life-threatening. Stop taking
GRASTEK and get medical treatment right away
if you or your child has any of the following
symptoms after taking GRASTEK:
• Trouble breathing
• Throat tightness or swelling
• Trouble swallowing or speaking
• Severe stomach cramps or pain,
vomiting, or diarrhea
For home administration of GRASTEK, your
doctor will prescribe auto-injectable epinephrine,
a medicine you can inject if you or your child has
a severe allergic reaction after taking GRASTEK.
Your doctor will train and instruct you on the
proper use of auto-injectable epinephrine.
Talk to your doctor or read the epinephrine
patient information if you have any questions
about the use of auto-injectable epinephrine.
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DISPATCHES
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with them. There is something we
do called Star Scout. A person has
stickers and gives them out to people that do well in music class.
There are mini-risers colored
yellow, red, blue and green. We
have assigned seats for Tuesdays
and Fridays. Some people sit on top
or bottom. Our music teacher, Mrs.
Hughes, is great at singing and
playing the piano at the same time.
In our homeroom, we have
classroom jobs at the end of the day.
There are several jobs and if it’s a
hard job, there are two people
assigned to that job. For example,
there are two snack managers and
two people who sharpen pencils.
There are two supplies managers
who organize supplies like highlighters and rulers.
Two teacher helpers go to the
printer and pick up the Weekly Bulletin for teachers or do things for
the teacher like closing the door or
erasing the board.
Two star helpers help others with
their jobs when people are absent or
someone needs extra help. It’s fun
to help each other take care of the
classroom.
— Loretta Talbott and the rest of
Mr. Taske’s second-grade class
Murch Elementary
International Night at Murch is
always fun. It happens in the late
spring, but we are getting ready
now. Each grade studies a different
culture and learns about the people,
art, food and customs.
On International Night, the
classes all share what they have
learned with the whole Murch community. Artwork is displayed in the
gym and tables representing each
country or culture line the baseball
field. There are many stands where
you can try foods you probably
haven’t had before and learn about
other places. It is always interesting
and also cool because all of your
friends are there. You can listen to
music and watch dancers perform
as you sample goods.
In fifth grade, we study India
and we are practicing cool Indian
songs to perform in the show. In art
we made clay pots, vases and bowls
and are painting them with the rangoli design.
International Night is always a
blast and I know we are definitely
looking forward to it!
— Aaron Shane, fifth-grader
Mrs. Rahimi, language arts:
“Can I say 11?”
“How do you feel about giving
your beloved students tests every
Friday?”
Mrs. Nahas, Spanish: “Excuse
me, sister. I give quizzes not tests. I
do like it though. I usually print or
write my own depending what my
students need to learn.”
“Do you like current events or
group projects better?”
Mrs. Hochhausler, science and
math: “I like both because in current events you guys get to learn
from each other and group projects
seem to excite you and make you
happy.”
“Do you like teaching math or
Latin?”
Mr. Hochhausler, math and
Latin: “I guess I would have to say
math since I have been teaching it
longer, but if I had more years I’d
say Latin.”
“What’s your favorite social
studies topic?”
Miss Meyer, religion and social
studies: “Ancient Rome. Rome is
my favorite place I’ve ever been to.
My sister also lives there. It will be
very fun to teach to you!”
— Sofia W. and Helena W.,
sixth-graders
St. Albans School
As the first semester came to an
end, everyone in seventh and eighth
grade was relieved to finally be finished with exams. After studying
painstakingly for hours each night,
the hard work finally paid off.
There was one perk for the boys
taking the exams. They only had to
come to school to take the exam
and then they could leave or stay
for optional review sessions.
Although it was a tough and grueling week, it filled us with knowledge and good study habits.
Last week the lower school went
to Trapier Theatre to hear the words
of our headmaster. Once a year Mr.
Wilson, our headmaster, brings the
lower school together for the State
of the School Address. This consists
of fourth through eighth grade, or
Form C through Form II. Mr. Wil-
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Our names are Helena and Sofia
and we adore our teachers at Our
Lady of Victory! Every day we
learn something new. We asked a
few of our teachers what they
thought of us ...
“How well do you think sixth
grade is doing?”
Mrs. Gibson, PE: “I think that
sixth grade is still in the exploration
stage of middle school: very active
but not very focused.”
“On a scale from one to 10 what
would you rate sixth grade?”
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son usually talks about how the
semester went and how the upcoming semester is looking. This year
we are working on our new fields
and that was the main focus of Mr.
Wilson’s speech. The lower schoolers asked about what might be on
the fields, what type of surface the
fields are and how many tennis
courts will there be. The main question, though, was, “When will it be
done?!”
As the semester came to an end
most were taken back by how fast it
flew by. Since this past semester
flew by, this one might do the same,
so we have to make the most of
every moment and only hope for
another great semester.
— Henry Holliday,
Form II (eighth-grader)
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day
School
At St. Patrick’s, fifth- and sixthgraders put on a musical every
spring, with sixth-grade students in
leading roles. I have loved the
shows since I was little. The way
someone can change into another
person with just a costume has
always fascinated me. Now that I
am in sixth grade, I finally get to be
on stage, singing and dancing in
costume.
Since the end of last year’s
show, everyone has been dying to
know what the musical or play will
be this spring. We continually asked
our music teacher, who would never
tell us. We were so surprised when
one day she announced to the class
what this year’s musical would be
“Willy Wonka Jr.” We were all so
happy that we jumped up and down
screaming!
In art class, fifth- and sixth-grade
students will be designing the set
for the musical. This is really exciting because for “Willy Wonka Jr.,”
we will be creating a lot of candy
and brightly-colored sets. I am
eager to see how we are going to
pull off all the characters. In “Willy
Wonka Jr.,” lots of misfortune happens to the characters. Augustus
Gloop gets sucked up a tube, Violet
Beauregarde turns into a giant blueberry, Mike Teavee is shrunken and
put into a television, and Veruca
Salt falls down a garbage chute. It is
going to be exciting to see how we
interpret this show!
— Witt Giannini, sixth-grader
Sheridan School
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., who was the kind of doctor who knows a lot of things, not
one who helps sick people, Sheridan School wanted us to learn about
each other, so we made a Human
Library. Grown-ups in the school
had tags on them that said “something you might not know about
me,” and then they told us something we didn’t know. They showed
us things about themselves that you
can’t tell by just looking at them.
One teacher said she wore out
three pairs of shoes when she hiked
the whole way across Virginia. One
teacher watched her daughter kayak
down waterfalls. Another teacher
used to work at an amusement park
and a pizza shop. One lived in
China and one ran 10 races in Ecuador. The teachers picked a lot of
good details and were very interesting. First-graders walked around the
school to talk to the teachers in the
Human Library with the third- and
fourth-graders. Other classes
walked around with their buddy
grades.
We found out that everybody has
something cool about themselves
that they want to share. We like to
hear things about the people in our
community. That makes Sheridan
17
the best because everybody is nice
to each other.
— Beatrix Carter and
Zora Thompson, first-graders
Washington Latin Public
Charter School
Can there ever be too much of a
good thing? At Washington Latin,
students have so many new clubs to
choose from that it is a challenge to
figure out which to join.
While there are several returning
clubs this year, such as Girls Leading Our World (GLOW), Model
United Nations and Quiz Bowl,
many new clubs have been added to
the roster this year such as comedy,
philosophy and justice.
Freshman Jewel Hunter started
the fashion club for students to discuss hair, makeup and clothing.
Junior Dusan Murray-Rawlings
started the comedy club to allow
students to watch their favorite
comedy routines and practice original stand-up. Several sophomores
decided that the school needed a
philosophy club so they could discuss ideas about what defines good
and evil, and what role religion
should play in our ideas. Eighthgrader Donald Cravins started a cartoonist club in the middle school.
The more-involved students
have a hard time balancing their
schedules, as several find themselves double- or even triplebooked. Sophomore Sophie Collier
attends newspaper and anime club
on Wednesdays and is working to
start her own chamber choir club.
She generally has to leave one early
to get to the other. Sophomore
Allegra Hatem balances her interests in Model UN, drama, Quiz
Bowl and philosophy. It is hard to
find time to do it all, but several students are trying to make it work.
— Alex Davis, 10th-grader
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Northwest Real Estate
ICE: Groundwater creates slippery, dangerous conditions on Belt Road, Garrison Street
From Page 1
in the 5000 block of Belt Road and
the adjacent 3900 block of Garrison
Street will be addressed — and residents are left wondering when the
city will act.
“This is a pretty simple story —
it’s just complete inaction by the
city,” said Annie Acosta, the mother
of the injured boy.
She and other neighbors have
been copied on emails from Ward 3
D.C. Council member Mary Cheh’s
office to officials in the D.C. Department of Transportation and the
Department of Public Works dating
back more than a year, which Acosta shared with The Current.
“They are promising to do something, but I’m just not confident that
anything will happen. This has been
going on for years,” she said. “We
could die waiting if we go off of
their email promises.”
In fact, almost a year to the day
before her son’s injury, Acosta
wrote to a Cheh staffer about the icy
conditions: “I am genuinely concerned that it could result in serious,
possibly even fatal, injury. Someone
could slip backwards and hit the
back of their head on the curb or a
car could hit the ice, not be able to
stop and hit another car or a person.”
The volume of water that flows
down these blocks of Garrison
Street and Belt Road is significant,
according to residents, and it flows
year-round. Most have sump pumps
in their basements and French drains
to pull water away from their houses’ foundations.
One homeowner in the 3900
block of Fessenden Street, which
runs parallel to Garrison, decided to
measure the amount of water his
sump pump was drawing off of his
property in 2013. At the peak in
July, Jim Chapman recorded 70 gallons of water per hour being pumped
from under his house.
In the winter, when the groundwater freezes on the road, sheets of
ice can cover the entire width of one
or both streets for several car
lengths, up to several inches thick,
according to residents. Due to the
absence of sidewalks on Belt, and
on the north side of Garrison, residents walk on the street to get to and
from their homes or cars. Car tires
and the wheels of city trash barrels
often become embedded in the ice.
Neither road is steeply pitched,
and storm drains are located at the
bottom of the 5000 block of Belt
and near the corner of Belt on Garrison. Because the water flows from
the opposite ends of the two roads,
it has lots of time and space to
spread across the two streets.
So far, the city has responded by
occasionally dumping additional
salt and sand on the roads, which
only helps temporarily, according to
residents.
Over the last several years, John
Lemoine, who has lived in the 5000
block of Belt Road since 1992, has
been the neighborhood’s point person with various city agencies. He
has contacted “numerous times” the
Transportation, Public Works, Environment, and Consumer and Regulatory Affairs departments, as well
as the D.C. Water and Sewer
Authority, to request action.
Last January, Lemoine said, an
inspector from the Transportation
Department visited and agreed that
conditions were hazardous. A supervisor from the agency later told
Lemoine that representatives from
various city departments would
meet at the site. According to Lemoine, “Nothing happened,” and he’s
not sure if that meeting ever took
place.
In subsequent calls to the Transportation Department, Lemoine said
he got through to a contractor, who
said there was a work order for Belt
Road, but it wasn’t on the budget for
2015, and the contractor couldn’t
tell Lemoine whether the requested
work was to fix the groundwater
problem.
On Jan. 27, Lemoine contacted
Transportation Department supervisor Marvin McFadden, who said he
inspected the area and determined
that because the runoff consisted of
groundwater, it was not the responsibility of his office. McFadden said
he had turned the issue over to the
Storm Water Management Branch
within the Transportation Department.
Lemoine also asked the Department of the Environment for help.
Lauren Linville of the RiverSmart
Homes program, which helps residents manage stormwater, visited
the site two weeks ago, according to
Lemoine. She told him that because
there was so much water, she
thought the Transportation Department would be responsible for capturing it at street level. Environment
Department spokesperson Adriana
Hochberg told The Current that her
agency would investigate the issue
and provide an update soon.
No one had contacted Lemoine
since — until two days ago, when a
Transportation Department official
told him a work order was initiated
to repave Belt Road.
On that same day, conflicting
information was delivered to Cheh’s
office from Transportation Department acting director Leif Dormsjo.
According to Cheh staffer Anthony
Cassillo, Dormsjo said his department did a second inspection on
Belt and Garrison last month and
determined that the groundwater is
coming from residential properties
– and therefore it is the responsibility of the Department of Consumer
and Regulatory Affairs.
In a Jan. 21 email to Cheh’s
office and several residents,
Dormsjo wrote that the problem
“seems like a drainage issue. We’ll
get you a full description of the
issue and potential solutions. Curb
or paving work may have to wait
until warmer weather. We’ll close
the loop though.”
Transportation Department officials did not respond to The Current’s inquiries about this matter by
deadline.
At the Department of Consumer
and Regulatory Affairs, spokesperson Matt Orlins was not aware of
the situation on Belt and Garrison,
and was not able to answer questions about why his agency would
be involved.
“I’m not surprised by this
response,” Lemoine said of the
Transportation Department’s various remarks since Monday. “I think
they’re just trying to cover their
butts. If residents report dangerous
conditions, the city should respond.”
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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
February 4, 2015 ■ Page 19
Kalorama residence invites outdoor entertaining
A
swimming pool, rose garden and handsome family
room with views (plus
access to these al fresco gems) are
ON THE MARKET
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among the fine elements of this
residence just off Massachusetts
Avenue. In warmer months these
features will shine in a home that
invites open-air entertainment.
Built in the 1920s, this house is
among the elegant stock of grand
neoclassical structures in SheridanKalorama. Bold pediments, pilasters and decorative carvings
embellish the main entry, which
sits just a few short steps from the
front path.
Situated on nearly a fifth of an
acre, the property at 2475 Kalorama Road offers a smooth flow
inside and outside. With six bedrooms and five-and-a-half baths,
it’s listed for $3,690,000.
The foyer divides the living
room and dining area, while housing a coat closet and powder room.
The floors on the main and upper
levels are covered with darkstained hardwood, unifying the living spaces and complementing
lighter-hued moldings.
The living room
sits on the home’s
south side, anchored
by a decorative fireplace. A wall of glass
here accesses a privately situated rear
patio.
On the northern
end of the house is the
formal dining room,
with views of the pool
and gardens. It’s
graced with an
antique bronze and crystal chandelier, period sconces and wainscoting.
Toward the rear is an open
space that unites the kitchen and
family room. The cooking area is
complete with high-end stainless
appliances including a SubZero
refrigerator and a FiveStar sixburner gas stove with two ovens, a
broiler, a range grill and a hood.
Custom cabinetry in cream tones
adds elegance to the space.
The walls and ceiling of the
family room are covered with custom wooden paneling. An antique
bronze chandelier and a fireplace
enhance this handsome area. A set
of French doors lead down to the
pool area and adjacent driveway
Photos courtesy of Washington Fine Properties
This six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath Sheridan-Kalorama
house is priced at $3,690,000.
with an electric gate and two-car
garage.
At the center of this rear living
space is a mini bar, which also
links the kitchen and living room.
It’s outfitted with a Scotsman icemaker and a chocolate granite
countertop. Leather-wrapped cabinets add a chic touch to this cozy
spot, which has a door leading out
to the more private patio behind
the living room.
Despite its tucked-away setting,
this outdoor space also connects to
the larger terrace, which features a
flagstone deck and a heated pool
with a fountain. The gardens here
will bloom in the next few months
with cherry blossoms and roses,
alongside the evergreens.
Back inside, the second floor
includes three main rooms, one of
which now functions as a library.
That room, with a marble fireplace, is counted as one of the
home’s six bedrooms. Another
bedroom comes with a full bath,
and a deep hall closet can also be
turned into a convenient laundry.
The master suite overlooks the
pool and gardens. It has automatic
blackout shades, two walk-in closets, and a bathroom with dual vanities and a walk-in marble steam
shower.
On the top floor are two more
bedrooms with quarter windows
offering views of the Washington
National Cathedral. They share a
hallway bath.
A few levels down is the basement with the sixth bedroom. This
space also has two full baths, one
of them near the rear entrance to
the pool. A Browning gun safe also
comes with the home.
Located at 2475 Kalorama
Road, the house has six bedrooms
and five-and-a-half-baths. It’s
priced at $3,690,000. For more
information, contact Cynthia L.
Howar of Washington Fine Properties at cynthia.howar@wfp.com
or 202-297-6000.
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PLATINUM: Embassy of Finland earns highest LEED status for sustainability efforts
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supplies, and banned the use of plastic cups,
plates and cutlery.
■ began composting leaves, grass and
branches on site.
■ installed electronic table legs so staff can
adjust them, rather than purchasing new office
furniture.
■ purchased three bikes so staff can cycle to
meetings. Currently, the embassy is using 50 percent
less electricity and 65 percent less gas than it
did in the mid-2000s. Peter Stenlund, secretary
of state at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, said
he hopes to shoot even higher. “It’s time to
look for a new target,” he said, proposing new
rankings: “LEED Titanium, or LEED Finland-
ian, so Finland has something to strive for.”
Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management at the U.S. State Department, said the
agency now requires all new U.S. embassies to
achieve at least LEED Silver status. He said
there are now 27 LEED-certified U.S. embassies around the world. “Embassies should
showcase ways to become more sustainable,”
he said.
LEED is a now widely recognized certification system for all types of buildings. Raters
award points for building design and construction, interior design, operation and maintenance, and a number of other factors that can
save both money and natural resources.
LEED Platinum requires a minimum of 80
points. The Finnish Embassy got 89 points in
the latest recertification.
RETAIL: New building planned
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the city Historic Preservation Office.
“The challenge we’ve got is it’s
not a very big property overall,” he
said. “Our view of it is growth along
the avenue, the main street, is the
right opportunity in terms of size and
scale. We didn’t want to cover the
whole block.”
Paul Weinschenk, Washington
Real Estate’s retail division head,
added that the proposed building
won’t be especially large. “What
we’re talking about is something
that’s less than a third of the size of
the Crate & Barrel; it’s actually
“One of the things that we heard
over and over again was that people
were excited about the fact there was
a new ownership, but also that there
was a lot of interest in expanding the
retail and restaurant options,” Elliott
said in an interview.
The plans have sparked some
concerns, however, according to
Tom Smith, chair of the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights advisory neighborhood commission. Smith wrote
in an email that the proposed building could threaten the
historic character of the
shopping center —
which dates to the
1930s and 1940s —
and that it would cut
into the center’s valuable parking.
Smith described the
plans he saw as “a contemporary red-brick
box-like building with The new building will fill a gap in the street
lots of glass fronting on frontage, replacing some parking spaces.
Massachusetts Avenue,” whose rear “was warehouse- pretty modest,” he said.
like featuring doors that could be While Weinschenk said it’s too
early to line up tenants, he and
used for loading.”
“After meeting with WRIT rep- Elliott talked about the possible
resentatives,” Smith wrote, “I am types of businesses that might be a
concerned that the overall plan, as good fit, based in part on feedback
now conceptualized by WRIT, from neighbors: a frozen yogurt
would not enhance the landmark shop, a “quick-carry” or sit-down
status of the site and may compro- restaurant, a wine and cheese shop,
mise the historical integrity of the or an upscale apparel store. Upstairs,
a “neighborhood office component”
site.”
The landmark nomination docu- would likely have tenants seeking to
ments for the Spring Valley Shop- serve nearby residents — dentists,
ping Center also point to the vital brokers, insurance agents or yoga
role played by the careful integration instructors.
of parking lots into the property’s The firm has scheduled another
development, distinguishing the community meeting on its plans, to
center’s original anchor tenant, Gar- be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at Le
finckel’s, from the department Pain Quotidien, located at 4874
store’s downtown flagship location. Massachusetts Ave. in the shopping
Smith added a more practical center. There, architects will show
concern: With more stores but fewer off revised designs, which Elliott
parking spaces, customers’ cars said are still being prepared in
could spill over onto nearby streets. response to feedback received to
Elliott said his firm will work to date.
minimize the loss of parking spaces, Smith said he looks forward to
both through the design of the new seeing the updated architecture but
building and by potentially reconfig- remains concerned about the parkuring the remaining section of the lot ing, especially given that today’s
to gain more spaces there. The net demand is lower than usual because
loss will be fewer than 20 spaces, he two retail spaces are currently
said, and utilization studies pointed vacant.
The firm hopes to file its plans
to surplus capacity.
Elliott said he determined that the with the Historic Preservation
parking lot is the only logical place Review Board in late February or
to grow, which is consistent with early March, and begin construction
feedback he said he received from sometime next year.
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Classes
■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will
host a weekly class on meditation. 7 to
8:30 p.m. $12. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-9862257.
■ Knowledge Commons DC and the
D.C. Public Library will present “Security
101: Protect Yourself Online,” led by
Patrick Lucey. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
knowledgecommonsdc.org.
Concerts
■ The Washington National Opera will
present selections from its upcoming productions of Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the
Carmelites” and Wagner’s “The Flying
Dutchman.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The ensemble Calefax will perform
works by Ockeghem, Franck,
Nancarrow,
Richard
Strauss and
Shostakovich.
8 p.m. Free;
tickets required. Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10
1st St. SE. 202-707-5502.
■ Herb Scott will host a weekly Capitol
Hill Jazz Jam session. 8 to 11 p.m. No
cover; two item per person minimum. Mr.
Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave.
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SE. 202-546-8412.
■ Moogatu and the Jones will perform.
8 p.m. $10. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
Discussions and lectures
■ Natalie Baszile will discuss her book
“Queen Sugar.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400.
■ Members of the ensemble Calefax
will discuss their craft. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library
of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5502.
■ The American Goethe Society will
present a talk by G. Ronald Murphy, professor of German at Georgetown University,
on “Brecht and the Bible: Mother Courage
and Her Children.” 6:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St.
NW. brigittefessenden@comcast.net.
■ David J. Morris will discuss his book
“The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
Films
■ Filmmaker Callum Macrae will present his Pulitzer Center-supported documentary “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields
of Sri Lanka,” about allegations of war
crimes during the final days of the country’s 26-year civil war. 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Forman Theater,
McKinley Building, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. no-firezone-washington-dc.eventbrite.com.
■ Director Khashyar Darvich will present his documentaries “Dalai Lama Awakening” and “Dalai Lama’s Compassion in
Action,” followed by a Q&A. 6:30 p.m. $20.
Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, 550
Penn St. NE. dalailamafilm.com/events.
■ “The Met: Live in HD” series will feature an encore presentation of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” 6:30
p.m. $18. AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW. fathomevents.com.
■ The National Gallery of Art’s
“Discovering Georgian Cinema”
retrospective will feature Otar Iosseliani’s
1971 feature film “Once Upon a Time
There Was a Singing Blackbird,” as well as
his short films “Akvareli” and “Sapovnela.”
7 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road
NW. tinyurl.com/singing-blackbird.
■ The Avalon Docs series will feature
Ian Cheney’s
film “The
Search for General Tso,” about
the origins of
the iconic staple of ChineseAmerican cooking. 8 p.m. $6.50 to
$11.75. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Performances
■ Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
will perform new works and enduring classics, including “Revelations.” 7 p.m. $30 to
$125. Opera House, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat
$10 to $85. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. The performance will
repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ “Heifetz on Tour” will showcase graduates of the Heifetz International Music
Institute. 7:30 p.m. $20 to $25. Kreeger
Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202338-3552.
■ Herb & Hanson, the Plate Scrapers
and Hollertown will perform. 8 p.m. $10.
Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
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■ Discussion: Georgetown Day
School’s Parent Education Series will
feature a talk by journalist Brigid
Schulte, author of “Overwhelmed:
Work, Love, and Play When No One
Has the Time.” 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Day School, 4200 Davenport
St. NW. 202-274-3188.
Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at
1:30 p.m.
■ Holly Bass will host an open mic
poetry event. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St.
NW. 202-789-2227.
Special event
■ Jack Rose Dining Saloon and Atlas
Brew Works will host a launch party for
their exclusive Apple Brandy Barrel-Aged
Ale. 6 to 9 p.m. Free admission. Jack Rose
Dining Saloon, 2007 18th St. NW. 202588-7388.
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Children’s program
■ James Riley will discuss his book
“Story Thieves” (for ages 9 through 12).
10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Classes
■ The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of
Washington National Cathedral, and Daniel G. Zemel, senior rabbi at Temple Micah,
will present a class on “What Do We Really
Believe?” as part of a series on “Looking
for God.” 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Temple Micah, 2829 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. kidd@templemicah.org.
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■ The Brown Bag Concert series will
feature chamber music. Noon. Free. Room
A-5, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ The Western Flyers will perform classic western swing, jazz standards, cowboy
songs and old-time fiddle tunes. Noon.
Free. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-5502.
■ The
Ashley
Daneman
Band will
perform a mix
of heartfelt jazz
and modern
folk. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra
will present “Fantasy & Fate: Tchaikovsky
Masterworks,” featuring conductor Juraj
Valchua and violinist Vilde Frang. 7 p.m.
■ Nancy Duff Campbell, founder and
co-president of the National Women’s Law
Center, will discuss “2014-2015 Supreme
Court Cases: What to Expect?” Luncheon
at 12:15 p.m.; program at 1 p.m. $10 to
$30. Woman’s National Democratic Club,
1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-2327363.
■ Georgetown University professor
Jonathan Brown will discuss his book
“Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge
and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s
Legacy.” 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free. Room 241,
Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW.
guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ The Literary Book Club will discuss
“King Hedley II,” the eighth play in August
Wilson’s 20th-century cycle of plays. 2:30
p.m. Free. Room 220, Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202727-0321.
■ American University professor Guy
Ziv will discuss his book “Why Hawks
Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign
Policy Change in Israel.” 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Abramson
Family Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues
NW. american.edu/cas/israelstudies.
■ Retired U.S. Army Col. James E.
Wyatt, founder of the Nannie Helen
Burroughs Project, will discuss “Nannie
Helen Burroughs: Lost to History, Relevant
Today,” about her work as a pioneering
educator and civil rights advocate. 4 to 6
p.m. Free. Multipurpose room, University of
the District of Columbia Community
College, 801 North Capitol St. NE.
nburroughsinfo.org
■ Smithsonian American Art Museum
chief curator Virginia Mecklenburg will
share some of the stories behind the
1930s paintings in the reinstalled firstfloor galleries and discuss her process in
selecting works that exemplify the American experience. 6 p.m. Free. Meet in the F
Street Lobby, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-6331000.
■ George Washington Interior Architecture & Design’s seventh annual Distinguished Designer Lecture will feature Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown of Tsao & McKown Architects. 6 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Continental Ballroom,
Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. calendar.gwu.edu.
■ The Mystery Book Group will discuss
“Shroud for a Nightingale” by P.D. James.
6:30 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th
St. NW. 202-347-0176.
■ The “Smithsonian Newsflash” series
will feature a talk on “The Future of Putin’s
Russia” by Matthew Rojansky, director of
the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center
and an expert on U.S. relations with the
states of the former Soviet Union. 6:45 to
8:15 p.m. $20. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Steve LeVine will discuss his book
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“The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a
Battery to Save the World.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ A support group for job seekers will
host a breakout session for participants to
network and strategize. 7 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ The West End Nonfiction Book Club
will discuss “Men We Reaped,” a memoir
by National Book Award winner Jesmyn
Ward. 7 p.m. Free. West End Interim
Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-7248707.
■ A forum on the espionage case of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will feature
Ronald Radosh, co-author of “The Rosenberg File”; Mark Kramer, director of Cold
War studies at Harvard University and
senior fellow of Harvard’s Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies; Harvey
Klehr and John Earl Haynes, co-authors of
“Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in
America”; Steven Usdin, author of “Engineering Communism: How Two Americans
Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet
Silicon Valley”; and Allen Hornblum, author
of “The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who
Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb.” 7 p.m.
Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th
and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ The Jewish Lit
Live series will present
a talk by Nick Kotz,
author of “The Harness
Maker’s Dream.” 7 to
8:30 p.m. Free.
Amphitheater, Marvin
Center, George
Washington University, 800 21st St. NW.
jewishlitlivegwu@gmail.com.
■ Jamilah Lemieux, senior editor of
Ebony Digital, will discuss “Colored Girls:
Leading From Behind, Loving Ourselves
Fiercely.” 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Room 112,
Reiss Science Building, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW.
guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Patricia Comella, faculty member at
the Bowen Center, will discuss “Applications of Bowen Theory in the Public Policy
Arena.” 7:30 p.m. Free. Bowen Center for
the Study of the Family, 4400 MacArthur
Blvd. NW. 202-965-4400.
■ The Washington Concert Opera and
the Wagner Society of Washington, D.C.,
will present a talk by Maestro Antony Walker and James Holman on “Richard Strauss
and Guntram.” 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St.
NW. 703-370-1923.
Films
■ The Palisades Library will host “Family Movie Sing-Along!” 6 p.m. Free. Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202-2823139.
■ The National Gallery of Art’s “Discovering Georgian Cinema” retrospective will
feature Otar Iosseliani’s 1971 feature film
“Pastorale” and his short film “Tudzhi.” 7
p.m. Free; reservations required. Embassy
of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW.
tinyurl.com/pastorale-tudzhi.
■ “Letters to Zion” director Rob Fiks
and producer James Pride will present a
teaser of their upcoming documentary
about Baltimore barbecue chef, ex-hustler
and accused terrorist Shorty Davis. The
event will include an informal discussion
and a poetry reading. 7 p.m. Free. Upshur
Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW.
upshurstreetbooks.com.
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Phillips looks at links between mathematics, art
to 8 p.m. in the lobby at 1200 1st St. NE. The exhibit
will remain on view Monday through Friday from 7 a.m.
to 7 p.m. through April 24. 202-234-7103.
■ “Anywhere/Anytime — A Modern Landscape,” highlighting the modernist sensibility in the plein-air paintings of Carl Bretzke, will open Friday at Susan Calloway Fine Arts with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The
On exhibit
exhibit will continue through March 7.
Located at 1643 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery is
“Shakespearean Equations” series of paintings, along
open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
with other works of his that explore the intersection of
202-965-4601.
art and science.
■ The Arts Club of Washington will open an exhibit
“Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms/Mathematical of paintings and works on paper by three artists Friday
Models” features photographs and
with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
sculptures by the contemporary JapaOn view through Feb. 28, the show feanese artist that portray mathematical
tures color intaglio etchings by Sally Babmodels.
ylon, mixed-media paintings by Jane
Located at 1600 21st St. NW, the
Johnson and watercolors by Maria Vallemuseum is open Tuesday through SaturRiestra.
day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday
Paintings by Lorna Aldrich and works
until 8:30 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m.
by other club members will also be on
to 6 p.m. Admission costs $12 for adults
view concurrently in the Spilsbury Galand $10 for seniors and students; it is
lery.
free for ages 18 and younger. 202-387Located at 2017 I St. NW, the gallery
2151.
is open Tuesday through Friday from 10
■ “Cutting-Edge Spanish Crafts: Innovaa.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10
tion and Design in Contemporary Crafts
a.m. to 2 p.m. 202-331-7282.
Industries,” spotlighting objects made by
■ Touchstone Gallery will open three
“Future Deferred”
individual crafters and designers, indusexhibits Friday with a reception from 6 to
trial innovators and large firms, will open by Janathel Shaw is 8:30 p.m. An “Encore” reception will
part of an exhibit at take place Feb. 21 from 1:30 to 3:30
tomorrow at the former residence of
the ambassador of Spain and contin- Touchstone Gallery.
p.m., and the show will continue through
ue through March 29.
March 1. The works can be previewed
Located at 2801 16th St. NW, the gallery is open
today and tomorrow during regular gallery hours.
Thursday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. contact@
Gallery A features the Touchstone Gallery All Memspainculture.us.
bers Artist Show.
■ “Diamond Landscape,” a changing installation by Erin Gallery B hosts “Unspoken Messages: The Art of
Curtis of painted panels arranged in a cohesive geomet- Janathel Shaw,” showcasing ceramic sculptures
ric pattern, will open tomorrow with a reception from 6
inspired by the symbol of the moth and transformation.
The Phillips Collection will open two exhibits Saturday focusing on the intersection of mathematics and
art and continue them through May 10.
“Man Ray — Human Equations: A Journey From
Mathematics to Shakespeare” highlights the artist’s
■ Alliance Française de Washington will
present the final episode of the World War
I documentary series “Apocalypse,” covering the years 1917 through 1919. A discussion will follow. 7 p.m. $5. Alliance
Française de Washington, 2142 Wyoming
Ave. NW. francedc.org.
■ The ninth Capital Irish Film Festival
will open with Niall Heery’s offbeat comedy
“Gold,” about
an estranged
father who
returns after
many years to
reconnect with
his daughter
and ex-wife but unwittingly finds he is
responsible for almost destroying all their
lives. 7:30 p.m. $6 to $12. Landmark’s E
Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW.
solasnua.org/ciff. The festival will continue
through Sunday with screenings at
Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW.
Reading
■ An American University faculty benefit reading for 826DC — a nonprofit group
dedicated to supporting students ages 6
through 18 with their creative and expository writing skills — will feature Kyle Dargan, Stephanie Grant, David Keplinger,
Richard McCann, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
and Rachel Louise Snyder. 8 to 10 p.m.
$5. 826DC, 3233 14th St. NW. 826dc.org
Special events
■ “Night Lights” — this month’s
“Phillips After 5” event — will offer warm
winter punch and a chance to see Bernardi
Roig’s Intersections exhibit “NO/Escape” in
a new light through interactive games and
spotlight tours focusing on works that play
with illumination and darkness. 5 to 8:30
p.m. $10 to $12; reservations suggested.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/events.
■ The Jackson Family Art Show will celebrate Black History Month with an art
exhibit, reception and hands-on art demonstration. 6 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202727-0321.
Tour
■ “Close-up Tour: Service and
Sacrifice” will explore iconography in the
Washington National Cathedral’s
sculpture, stained glass and needlework
that pays tribute to significant events in
U.S. history and honors those who have
served and sacrificed for their country. 3
Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues
NW. nationalcathedral.org.
Man Ray’s “Shakespearean Equation,
Twelfth Night,” on loan from the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, is part of
an exhibit at the Phillips Collection.
Gallery C presents “Earth’s Elements by Harmon
Biddle,” highlighting drawings and glass sculptures that
portray elements of the earth.
Located at 901 New York Ave. NW, the gallery is
open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202347-2787.
■ “Food for the Body — Food for the Soul,” featuring
works by 28 artists who have been asked to interpret
the theme of fueling the body and soul, will open Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at Watergate
Gallery. Artists’ receptions will take place Feb. 11, Feb.
24 and March 11, all at 6 p.m., and the exhibit will continue through March 21.
Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is
open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-338-4488.
town University, 37th and O streets NW.
202-687-2787.
■ Students from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids program will
perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
■ D.C.-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Alan Barnosky will perform. 7 p.m.
Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K
St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ The Crossroads Club will host saxophonist Maceo Parker performing soul and
funk. 8 and 10 p.m. $32. Atrium, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Steve Scott Project will perform
jazz, reggae, pop and R&B music. 8 to 11
p.m. No cover; minimum of two items per
person. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.
■ Singer Dana Fuchs will perform. 9
p.m. $20 to $25. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St.
7+(:25/')$0286
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Concerts
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
present works by Brahms, Debussy and
Charles Koechlin. Noon. Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202-3332075.
■ The Noon-Time Organ Recital Series
will feature Hans Uwe Hielscher of Wiesbaden, Germany. 12:15 to 1 p.m. Free.
National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas
Circle NW. 202-797-0103.
■ The Friday Music Series will feature
cellist Tobias Werner and pianist Lura
Johnson performing works by Cassado,
Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann and Piazzolla. 1:15 p.m. Free. McNeir Hall, George-
NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ In conjunction with the special exhibition “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother,
Idea,” Brown University history professor
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NW. 202-783-7370.
■ Georgetown University professors
Victor Cha, Michael Green, Joanna Lewis,
Irfan Nooruddin and Andrew Scobell will
discuss “U.S. Pivot to Asia: What’s Next?
From Politics and Security to Climate and
Energy.” 2 to 3 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Auditorium, Bunn Intercultural
Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Scott McCloud will discuss his book
“The Sculptor.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ Alliance Française de Washington
will host a talk by Vanessa Badré on the
symbolism of breasts in history. 7 p.m.
$10 to $15. Alliance Française de
Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW.
francedc.org.
Film
■ The 19th annual Iranian Film Festival
will feature Mitra Farahani’s 2013 film “Fifi
Howls From Happiness,” about Bahman
Mohassess, a famous artist in pre-revolution Iran. 7 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium,
The Current
Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000. The film will
be shown again Sunday at 2 p.m.
Performances
■ The South Africa Project Benefit
Performance will feature new drama and
poetry presented by students at the
Bokamoso Youth Centre in Winterveldt,
South Africa. 7:30 p.m. $10 to $35.
Marvin Center, George Washington
University, 800 21st St. NW. tinyurl.com/
SouthAfricaProject2015. The performance
will repeat Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
■ Washington Improv Theater will present “Road Show: Wintry Mix,” featuring a
revolving lineup of company ensembles
and special guests. 7:30 and 10 p.m. $8
to $15. District of Columbia Arts Center,
2438 18th St. NW. witdc.org. The performance will repeat Feb. 7, 13 and 14 at
7:30 and 10 p.m.
■ Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi will
present the D.C. premiere of “Zero Hour:
Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape,” about the English-speaking female radio announcers on
Japanese propaganda programs during
World War II. 7:30 p.m. $40. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The
performance will repeat Saturday at 7:30
p.m.
■ Georgetown University will present a
staged reading of professor Derek Goldman’s new adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Bridge of
San Luis Rey.” 8 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Georgetown University, 37th and
O streets NW. 202-687-2787. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ Beny Blaq will host “Live! From Busboys” open mic and talent showcase. 11
p.m. to 1 a.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202387-7638.
Reading
■ Area poets Gayle Danley and Shelley
Puhak will read from their own work
written in response to the characters and
themes of “Mary Stuart.” 6:30 p.m. Free;
reservations suggested. Folger
Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St.
SE. folger.edu.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Anaheim Ducks. 7 p.m. $36 to $484. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.
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■ “Saturday Morning at the National”
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a collection of short stories packed with
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■ Concert: Singer Ian Bostridge will
perform Schubert’s late masterpiece
“Winterreise” and discuss his new
book “Schubert’s ‘Winter Journey’:
Anatomy of an Obsession.” 2 p.m.
Free; tickets required. Coolidge
Auditorium, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE.
202-707-5502.
Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202783-3372.
■ The Weekend Family Matinees series
will feature Blue Sky Puppet Theatre performing “The Three (Not So Little) Pigs.” 10
a.m. $6.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
■ “Create a Code” will offer a chance
to use the most powerful weapon created
by man to create your own code (for ages
6 through 12). 10 a.m. Free; reservations
required. Folger Shakespeare Library, 201
East Capitol St. SE. folger.edu.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra’s
“Teddy Bear Concert: Two Divas and a
Bear!” will feature violinist Marissa Regni
and soprano Kari Paludan (for ages 3
though 5). 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. $20.
Family Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium
program about the season’s brightest
stars, planets and constellations (for ages
5 and older). 1 to 1:45 p.m. Free. Rock
Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road
NW. 202-895-6070. The program will
repeat Sunday at 1 p.m.
■ Children will hear a story about poet,
writer and art collector George Washington
Carver and then create a special piece of
art. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to
5 p.m.
■ Kid President (aka Robby Novak)
and partner Brad Montague will discuss
their book “Kid President’s Guide to Being
Awesome.” 2 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Great Hall, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
dclibrary.org/kidpresident.
Classes and workshops
■ Judy Scott Feldman, an independent
medieval art historian, will lead a seminar
on “The Cloisters: Medieval Manhattan.”
9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. $60 to $100. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Writer and historian Susan Wise Bauer
will lead a seminar on
“Reading Your Way to
an Educated Mind.”
9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
$87 to $130. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Art historian Lawrence Butler, an
associate professor at George Mason University, will lead a seminar on “Medieval
England Through Its Art and Archaeology.”
9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. $87 to $130. S.
Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive
SW. 202-633-3030.
■ The Mount Pleasant Library will present “Saturday Morning Yoga.” 10 a.m.
Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th
St. NW. 202-671-3122.
host a workshop on mindfulness. 10 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. $25. Vajrayogini Buddhist
Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202986-2257.
■ Marcus Jones, history professor at
the U.S. Naval Academy and consultant for
the Institute for Defense Analysis, will lead
a seminar on “The Cold War.” 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. $87 to $130. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Heather Markowitz, founder of WithLoveDC, will lead a “Practice With Love”
yoga class. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Conservatory West Gallery, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333.
■ Alice Langhold will lead a Practical
Reiki Workshop on the Japanese energybased healing technique. 11 a.m. to 4
p.m. $50. Institute for Spiritual Development, 5419 Sherier Place NW. isd-dc.org.
■ Cedric Lewis, community lending officer at Operation HOPE, will lead a seminar
on homeownership. 1 p.m. Free. Petworth
Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-2431188.
■ “Chocolate Meditation Workshop”
will take eating dark chocolate to a new
level. 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. $20. lil omm yoga,
4708 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-248-6304.
■ Nasha Thomas-Schmitt, former
dancer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater,
will lead a workshop on choreography from
the company’s most iconic work, “Revelations.” 5:30 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Concerts
■ Students of the School of Advanced
Piano will present a recital. 1 p.m. Free.
The United Church, 1920 G St. NW. 202331-1495.
■ The KC Jazz Club will feature Chris
Brubeck’s Triple Play performing a tribute
to the late jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. 7:30
and 9:30 p.m. $26 to $32. Terrace Gallery,
■ Cellist Danielle Cho will perform
works by J.S.
Bach, Benjamin Britten,
Kaija Saariaho,
Gaspar Cassadó and Dan
Visconti. 8 p.m.
Free. Westmoreland Congregational United
Church of Christ, 1 Westmoreland Circle.
301-320-2770.
■ Dumbarton Concerts will feature
Ukrainian pianist Mykola Suk and PostClassical Ensemble performing
“Beethoven, Early to Late.” 8 p.m. $30 to
$35. Dumbarton United Methodist Church,
3133 Dumbarton St. NW. 202-965-2000.
■ The Georgetown Chimes will hold the
42nd annual Cherry Tree Massacre, the
largest a cappella show on the East Coast.
7:30 p.m. $10 to $12. Gaston Hall,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. georgetownchimestickets@gmail.com.
Another performance will take place Feb.
21 at 7:30 p.m.
■ Washington Performing Arts will
present a concert by Palestinian oud and
violin virtuoso Simon Shaheen. 8 p.m.
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$35. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ The bands ELM and Subtle Hustle
will perform. 9 p.m. $12 to $15. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Historian Burnell Irby will discuss the
Civil War service of Pvt. John B. Whiting of
the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry
in the Battle of Petersburg and subsequent
capture of Richmond. 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Textile Museum Advisory Council
member and longtime collector John Howe
will discuss “Varieties of Hooked Rugs,
Quilts, and Coverlets.” 10:30 a.m. Free.
Former site of the Textile Museum, 2320 S
St. NW. 202-994-5200.
■ Susan Youens, professor of music at
the University of Notre Dame, will discuss
Schubert. 12:30 p.m. Free. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress,
10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5502.
■ Neil Roberts will discuss his book
“Freedom as Marronage,” at 1 p.m.; Lee
Trimble will discuss his book “Beyond the
Call: The True Story of One World War II
Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on
the Eastern Front,” at 3:30 p.m.; and Rafia
Zakaria will discuss her book “The Upstairs
Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan,” at 6
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Jude Angelini, host of the “All Out
Show” on Sirius Satellite’s Shade 45, will
discuss his book “Hyena,” a collection of
autobiographical stories. 7 p.m. Free.
Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW.
upshurstreetbooks.com.
Film
■ The Mount Pleasant Library will present Doug Liman’s 2014 film “Edge of
Tomorrow,” starring Tom Cruise. 2 p.m.
Free. Large Meeting Room, Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-6713121.
Performances
■ The DC Youth Slam Team semifinals
will feature 20 teenage poets from the
Washington area performing original poetry in an elimination-style competition. 6
p.m. Free. Kogod Courtyard, National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202633-1000.
■ The DC Contemporary Dance Theatre/El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea
will present “Deep Roots Wide World,” featuring a diverse program celebrating the
evolution of ethnic dance in D.C. over the
past 30 years and spotlighting the work of
founder/artistic director Miya Hisaka. 8
p.m. $15 to $30. Dance Place, 3225 8th
St. NE. 202-269-1600. The performance
will repeat Sunday at 4 p.m.
Special events
■ The Washington Harbour ice skating
rink will hold a weekly “Cartoon Skate”
event — a chance to share the ice with
Scooby Doo, Cat in the Hat and more. 10
a.m. to noon. $9 to $10. Washington Harbour, 3000 K St. NW. 202-706-7666.
■ Rabbis Mark Novak and Gilah Langner will present “Mindfulness Practice Thru
a Jewish Lens.” 10:15 a.m. to noon. Free.
Geneva Room, Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church, 1 Chevy Chase Circle NW. 202362-3270.
■ “La Chandelleur,” also known as
Crêpe Day, will feature a chance to snack
on sweet treats, hear classic French tales,
The Current
explore French treasures with a printed
activity guide, and decorate a plate in fanciful designs and flourishes. 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. $5 to $18. Hillwood Estate, Museum
and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202686-5807.
■ “Eyes in the Sky: Game of Drones
Family Day” will feature local drone makers
demonstrating the inner workings of their
wares and participating in a series of
secret spy missions to see whose drone is
the stealthiest. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free.
National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW.
202-272-2448.
■ “Black History Month Family Day:
Rising Up” — inspired by the exhibition
“Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College” — will feature hands-on
activities, family gallery tours, musical performances and a genealogy workshop led
by Karen Bennett Harmon. 11 a.m. to 4
p.m. Free. National Museum of American
History, Constitution Avenue between 12th
and 14th streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The James Renwick Alliance will
present “The Craft of Music,” featuring a
panel discussion on making, playing and
collecting stringed instruments; an exhibition of historic, contemporary and nontraditional stringed instruments; and performances of Bach by Arcovoce Chamber
Ensemble and aMuse and of bluegrass by
Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band.
Noon to 5 p.m. $20 to $40. Katzen Arts
Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 301-907-3888.
■ The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and
DC Brau will present “CHAW & Brau: Arts &
Craft Beer Fundraiser,” featuring tours of
the brewery, musical performances, a Valentine’s photo booth and prize drawings.
Noon to 5 p.m. Free admission; with a
donation of $30 or more to Capitol Hills
Arts Workshop, attendees will receive a
growler filled with craft beer. DC Brau,
3178-B Bladensburg Road NE. 202-5476839.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Wizards will play the
Brooklyn Nets. 7 p.m. $25 to $390. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.
Tours and walks
■ Park volunteer Lisa Struckmeyer will
lead an African-American History Hike
through Rock Creek Park. 11 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. Free. Meet at Peirce Mill, Tilden Street
and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070.
■ “Hellbent on Sustainability: Green
Home Tour & Beer Tasting” will feature
tours of True Turtle’s latest project — two
new LEED Platinum row homes in Riggs
Park — and samples from new D.C. brewery Hellbender. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 5516 and
5520 4th St. NE. trueturtle.com.
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■ In honor of Black History Month, a
park ranger will lead a planetarium program about sub-Saharan Africa’s night sky
and star stories (for ages 5 and older). 4 to
4:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center,
5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Nya Alemayhu will lead a weekly
class on Vinyasa yoga, an energetic
practice that encourages breath with
movement. Noon. $5 donation suggested.
Dock 5, Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE.
unionmarketdc.com.
host a class on “Advice for Life and Prayers
for World Peace.” 10 to 10:45 a.m. $6.
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A look at 1980s Pittsburgh
Arena Stage will present August Wilson’s “King Hedley
II” Feb. 6 through March 8 in the Fichandler Stage.
Set in the 1980s, the ninth installment of Wilson’s
acclaimed 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle” examining black America
On stage
follows a scarred ex-convict who struggles to turn his life
around and lock away his past.
Tickets cost $45 to $90. Arena Stage is located at 1101
6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.
■ The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s world premiere of
“The Metromanics” opened this week and will run through
March 8.
The third installment in playwright David Ives’ series of
rediscovered French comedy masterpieces, the play turns on
mistaken identity, misplaced
ardor and a fight for true
love. It is based on the lost
classic “La Métromanie” by
Alexis Piron.
Tickets cost $20 to
$110. The Lansburgh Theatre is located at 450 7th St.
NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.
■ Spooky Action Theater
will stage the world premiere
of Barbara Weichmann’s
“Last of the Whyos” Feb. 5
through March 1 at the UniSpooky Action Theater
versalist National Memorial
will present “Last of
Church.
the Whyos.”
Eddie Farrell, king of the
Whyos gang in 1880s New York, slips through time and lands
on the beach at Coney Island a hundred years later. Pulled
into a sideshow world, he confronts his future self and
unleashes energies long held in check.
Tickets cost $25 to $35. The theater is located at 1810
16th St. NW. 202-248-0301; spookyaction.org.
■ Moon Lake Productions will present “A House of Glass”
Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-986-2257.
■ Sommeliers Sabrina Kroeger and
Roberto Picado will host a wine class on
“True Love Is … Bubbles and Chocolates,”
featuring sparkling wine. 6 to 8 p.m. $50.
The Cellar, Eno Wine Bar, 2810 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-295-2826.
Concerts
■ “The Mighty Flentrop in Concert” will
feature organists Kathy Cooper, Sophie
Ewing, Diane Heath, Carolyn Hoff, John
Hurd, John Sides and Steve Smith. 2 p.m.
Free. St. Columba’s Episcopal Church,
4201 Albemarle St. NW. columba.org.
■ Pianist Christopher Atzinger will perform two fantasy works
by Chopin and Hummel along with several
rare compositions. 3
p.m. Free; tickets distributed in the G Street
Lobby at 2:30 p.m. McEvoy Auditorium,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th
and G streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The Washington
Metropolitan Philharmonic, pianist Thomas
Pandolfi (shown) and
trombonist Brian
Bourne will perform
works by Liszt and
Brahms, as well as the
premiere of Maryland composer Ross Wixon’s “Sparkling Dialogue, for Trombone
and Strings.” 3 p.m. $20. Church of the
Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. wmpamusic.org.
Arena Stage will present “King Hedley II,” part
of August Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle.”
Feb. 5 through 8 at Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle.
Featuring music by Paul Leavitt and book and lyrics by
Shelley Herman Gillon and Harriet McFaul Pilger, this musical
play about the life of Tennessee Williams explores his family
archetypes, his relationships with his agent and his longtime
companion, and how they gave rise to his indelible characters.
Tickets cost $10. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St.
SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.
■ Anacostia Playhouse will stage Bryony Lavery’s psychological drama “Frozen” Feb. 5 through March 1.
“Frozen” tells the story of the disappearance of 10-year-old
Rhona and follows her mother and killer over the years that
follow. A psychologist studying the brains of serial killers provides the link that intertwines the lives of the three characters.
Tickets cost $25 to $35, with pay-what-you-can performances the first two nights. The Anacostia Playhouse is located at 2020 Shannon Place SE. anacostiaplayhouse.com.
■ GALA Hispanic Theatre will stage “Los empeños de una
casa/House of Desires,” a comedy by iconic 17th-century
Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Feb. 5 through
March 1.
This romantic Spanish Golden Age comedy of intrigue —
presented in Spanish with English surtitles — mixes lyrical
poetry, puns, songs, cross-dressing and mistaken identities.
Director Hugh Medrano sets his production in a 1940s Mexican hacienda filled with machismo and the sounds of mariachi.
Tickets cost $20 to $42. GALA Theatre is located at 3333
14th St. NW. 202-234-7174; galatheatre.org.
■ “Tradition and Rebellion in Jewish
Music” — presented by Levine Music and
the Washington DC Jewish Community
Center — will feature cellist Vasily Popov,
pianist Ralitza Patcheva and the violin/
viola duo marcolivia. 4 to 5:30 p.m. $15.
Washington DC Jewish Community Center,
1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org.
■ “Palmer Project: Brahms and More!”
will feature pianist Ann Kang, violinist Teri
Lazar and cellist Nancy Jo Snider performing works by Brahms, Janacek and Sluka.
3 p.m. Free. Abramson Family Recital Hall,
Katzen Arts Center, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-8852787.
■ Violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist
Alexander Melnikov will perform works by
Franck, Dvorák, Enescu and Tchaikovsy. 4
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/music.
■ Students of Stephen Baker will perform a recital of piano and percussion
music. 6 to 7 p.m. Free. Middle C Music,
4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-244-7326.
■ Soprano Marlissa Hudson and pianist Alan Mandel will perform in honor of
Black History Month. 6:30 p.m. Free. West
Garden Court, National Gallery of Art, 4th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202737-4215.
■ Dahlak Restaurant will present its
weekly “DC Jazz Jam” session. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. Free. 1771 U St. NW. 202-5279522.
■ Author Menachem Rosensaft, film-
maker Aviva Kempner and American University professor Michael Brenner will discuss Rosensaft’s book “God, Faith & Identity From the Ashes: Reflections of Children
and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors,”
at 1 p.m.; and Katherine Heiny will discuss
her book “Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories,” at 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Robert S. Nelson, professor at the
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts at the National Gallery of Art, will discuss “The Light of Icons.” 2 p.m. Free.
West Building Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performances
■ Actor Lorri Holt will perform “Colette:
A One-Woman Show — The Author of ‘Gigi’
in Her Own Words.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Salt & Pepper Restaurant and Alliance for New Music-Theatre will present
“Rumi in Music and Poetry: Readings From
the Great Sufi Mystic Poet,” featuring
Sunny Jolie, David Martin, Fariba Khonsari
and Farshid Shahidi. 7 p.m. Free. Salt &
Pepper Restaurant, 5125 MacArthur Blvd.
NW. newmusictheatre.org.
■ Brian Feldman Projects will present
“txt,” an interactive performance featuring
a mysterious character who recites dialogue written anonymously by the audience in real time via Twitter. 7 p.m. $15 to
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4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
ter for Poetic Thought, Studio 25, 716
Monroe St. NE. 800-838-3006. The performance will repeat Feb. 15.
■ The Reading Room Comedy Show
will feature host Chris Brandt and
comedians Alli Hanley, Alexx Starr, Reggie
Melbrough, Alyssa Cowan, Alex Barbag,
Jelani “J” Wils, Hillary Scofield and Si
Mone. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Reading Room,
Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW.
petworthcitizen.com.
■ Yoga District instructor Smita Kumar
will lead a weekly class for beginners.
12:30 p.m. Free; registration required.
West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia
Ave. NW. 202-724-8698.
■ The D.C. Public Library and
Knowledge Commons DC will present a
class on “A Beginner’s Guide to Social
Media in China,” led by Lai Wei. 6:30 to 8
p.m. Free; reservations required. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. knowledgecommonsdc.org.
■ Chef Jose Adorno will lead a class on
Puerto Rican dishes. 6:30 p.m. $75. G by
Mike Isabella, 2201 14th St. NW.
tinyurl.com/adorno-class. The class will
repeat Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
■ The Mount Pleasant Library will present “Monday Night Meditation.” 7 p.m.
Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th
St. NW. 202-671-3122.
■ Joe Ryan will lead a workshop for job
seekers on how to improve search strategies, interview skills, networking and more.
7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R
St. NW. 202-727-0232.
Film
■ “Top Secret: An Interactive Film Experience” will feature East German director
János Veiczi’s 1963 spy thriller “For Eyes
Only.” 6:30 p.m. $4 to $7. Goethe-Institut,
812 7th St. NW. 202-289-1200.
Special events
■ “Games Afternoon: What Do You
Spy?” will feature various puzzle-oriented
and hidden-role games, including several
with themes of espionage and political
intrigue. 3 to 6 p.m. $5; reservations
required. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW.
goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com.
■ Organizers of the Washington D.C.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade will host a fundraiser with Irish dancers and live music by
Irish singer Pappageorge. 3 to 7 p.m. $5
donation suggested. Kelly’s Irish Times, 14
F St. NW. dcstpatsparade.com.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Philadelphia Flyers. 3 p.m. $60 to $621.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.
Tour
■ Senior curator Eleanor Harvey will
lead a tour of Hudson River School paintings depicting wooded scenes similar to
those traveled by the Headless Horseman
in Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy
Hollow.” 3 p.m. Free. Meet in the G Street
Lobby, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
8th and G streets NW. 202-633-1000.
Monday, Feb. 9
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■ “Picturing America: The Selma to
Montgomery March for Voting Rights in
1965” will focus on the difficulties faced
by African-Americans trying to vote in the
South by analyzing a photo of the march,
reading “This Is the Dream” and “A Sweet
Smell of Roses,” and listening to recordings of “We Shall Overcome” and “Lift
Every Voice and Sing” (for ages 6 and
older). 4:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library,
Concert
■ The Beijing Chamber Players will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator of Italian and Spanish painting at the
National Gallery of Art, and Elizabeth
Walmsley, paintings conservator at the
National Gallery of Art, will discuss “What’s
New With Piero di Cosimo?” 12:10 and
1:10 p.m. Free. West Building Lecture Hall,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Simon Doonan,
creative ambassador
for Barneys New York,
will discuss his book
“The Asylum: True
Tales of Madness From
a Life in Fashion.” 7
p.m. $16. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-9876487.
■ Reggie Love will discuss his book
“Power Forward: My Presidential Education.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
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■ The China Arts Education Federation
will present the “5th China America Youth
Music Performance 2015,” featuring
music and dance students from schools in
Beijing, Prince William County and the District. 7 p.m. $10 to $68. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 732-662-8887.
■ Comedian Natalie McGill will headline a weekly stand-up comedy show. 8
p.m. Free. Jake’s Boiler Room, 5018 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-5253.
■ Busboys and Poets will present
“Nine on the Ninth,” a poetry night hosted
by Derrick Weston Brown. 9 to 11 p.m. $5.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Readings
■ Theater Alliance will present “Night
Falls on the Blue Planet” by Kathleen
Akerley as part of its Hothouse New Play
Reading Series. 7 p.m. Name your own
price. Anacostia Playhouse, 2020
Shannon Place SE. theateralliance.com/
project/hothouse.
■ PEN/Faulkner Fiction will present
“The Imaginary Real:
Ruth Ozeki & Claire
Vaya Watkins,” featuring readings by Ozeki
(shown) and Watkins
and discussion of the
fine line between real
and imagined experience. 7:30 p.m. $15. Folger Shakespeare
Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. folger.edu.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Wizards will play the
Orlando Magic. 7 p.m. $19 to $322. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.
Tuesday, Feb. 10
Tuesday february 10
■ “Tudor Tots: Winter Wonderland” will
feature songs, stories and movement (for
ages 2 through 4). 10 a.m. $5; free for
accompanying adults. Tudor Place Historic
House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW.
tudorplace.org.
Classes
■ The Georgetown Library will present
a yoga class for seniors. 11 a.m. Free; reservations required. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. geoyogarsvp@dc.gov.
■ Yoga teacher and therapist Heather
Ferris will lead a yoga class. Noon. Free.
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th
St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ The Georgetown Library will present
a Hatha/Gentle Yoga class. 12:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Georgetown
Library, 3260 R St. NW. geoyogarsvp@dc.
gov.
■ Housing Counseling Services Inc. will
present an introductory workshop on
reverse mortgages. 2 p.m. Free. Suite 100,
2410 17th St. NW. 202-667-7006.
■ The D.C. Public Library and Knowledge Commons DC will present a class on
“Know Your Sources: News Literacy and
Media Framing,” led by Anastasia Kolobrodova. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160
16th St. NW. knowledgecommonsdc.org.
Tuesday, february 10
■ Concert: Fortas Chamber Music
Concerts will feature the KalichsteinLaredo-Robinson Trio performing
works by Beethoven, Dvorák and
Tchaikovsky. 7:30 p.m. $49. Terrace
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Yoga Activist will present a beginnerlevel yoga class for adults and teens. 7:30
p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas
Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
Concerts
■ The Tuesday Concert Series will feature pianist Deborah Lee performing works
by Mozart, Chopin and Schumann. 12:10
p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G
St. NW. 202-347-2635.
■ New Orleans singer-songwriter
Andrew Duhon and his trio will perform
original works in his colorful troubadour
style. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The “Music From Japan 40th Anniversary Concert” will feature Mayumi Miyata on sho, Wu Man on pipa and Jin Hi Kim
on komungo. 7:30 p.m. Free; tickets
required. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery
of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-1000.
■ Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge will host
its weekly open mic show. 8 p.m. Free.
Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ Abdelbassir Elsayed, a Carnegie
Centennial visiting fellow at American
University, will discuss “Understanding
Urban Segregation in Cairo: The Social and
Spatial Logic of a Fragmented City.” 11
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Free. Conference Room
4, Mary Graydon Center, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
american.edu/sis/events.
■ Anders Aslund (shown), senior fellow
at the Peterson Institute for International
Economics, and Vadim
Grishin, senior adviser
at the International
Monetary Fund and
former executive director of the World Bank
Group, will discuss
“The Russian Economy
in Crisis: What’s Next?” Noon to 1 p.m.
Free. McGhee Library, Bunn Intercultural
streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Caroline Fredrickson, president of
the American Constitution Society, will discuss “Women and Work.” Luncheon at
12:15 p.m.; program at 1 p.m. $10 to $30.
Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526
New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ Kaushik Basu, senior vice president
and chief economist at the World Bank
Group, will discuss “Global Economic
Development: What the Trends Portend.” 5
to 6:30 p.m. Free. Copley Formal Lounge,
NW. global.georgetown.edu/futures.
■ Historian Richard Bell will discuss
“The Blackest Market: Kidnapping and the
Domestic Slave Trade.” 6:30 p.m. Free.
Room 316, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ The World Affairs Council will host a
talk by Peter Wittig, ambassador of
Germany to the United States. 6:30 to 8
p.m. $25 to $35. Residence of the
German Ambassador, 1800 Foxhall Road
NW. worldaffairsdc.org.
■ Pulitzer Prize winner Lynsey Addario
will discuss her book “It’s What I Do: A
Photographer’s Life of Love and War.” 7
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ In honor of Black History Month, the
District of Change discussion series will
explore the topic “Is D.C. Still Chocolate
City?” with panelists Natalie Hopkinson,
D.C. author and scholar; Dan Silverman,
creator of PoPville.com; and Latoya Peterson, owner and editor of Racialicious.com.
7 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
Films
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library will host the Black Film Festival. 6
p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-1291.
The festival will continue Feb. 17 and 24.
■ The American University School of
Communication’s 10th annual spring film
series will feature the Animal Planet documentary “Saving Africa’s Giants With Yao
Ming,” with remarks by executive producer
and Animal Planet senior director of production Erin Wanner on the making and
marketing of the film. 7 p.m. Free. Forman
Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-885-3408.
■ The National Archives will present
the 2014 film “Unbroken,” about the life of
Olympian and war hero Louis “Loouie”
Zamperini. 7 p.m. Free. McGowan Theater,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW.
202-357-5000.
Performances
■ Local elementary and middle school
students will perform President Abraham
Lincoln’s speeches as part of the seventh
annual oratory festival on the Ford’s Theatre stage. 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Free;
tickets required. Ford’s Theatre, 511 10th
St. NW. fords.org. The event will repeat
Wednesday at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.
■ Young Playwrights’ Theater will present “New Writers Now! — #nofilter,” featuring staged readings. 7 p.m. Free. Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Place SE.
youngplaywrightstheater.org.
■ SpeakeasyDC will present its monthly show, “Hail Mary: Stories About Long
Shots, Last Resorts, and Desperate Acts.”
8 p.m. $15. Town Danceboutique, 2009
8th St. NW. speakeasydc.com.
■ Comedians Nick Thune, Ben Kronberg and Kate Berlant will perform. 8 p.m.
$15 to $18. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ The Washington Improv Theater’s
“Harold Night” will feature performances
by Fisticuffs and Love Onion, followed by
an improv jam. 9 p.m. By donation. Source,
1835 14th St. NW. witdc.org.
■ Busboys and Poets will present an
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open mic poetry night hosted by Pages
Matam. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
202-387-7638.
Wednesday, Feb. 11
Wednesday february 11
Classes
■ Kripalu yoga teacher Eva Blutinger
will lead a “Yoga in the Galleries” class. 10
a.m. $5. American University Museum,
Katzen Arts Center, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-8851300.
■ The D.C. Public Library and
Knowledge Commons DC will present a
class on “Cultivating a Home Yoga
Practice,” led by Gwen Fernandez. 6:30 to
8 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW.
knowledgecommonsdc.org.
■ The D.C. Public Library and Knowledge Commons DC will present a class on
how to embroider letters of the alphabet,
led by artist Ashley Meadows. 7:30 to 8:45
p.m. Free; reservations required. Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St.
NW. knowledgecommonsdc.org.
■ The Jewish Study Center will begin a
four-session course on “Some of Their Best
Friends: Righteous Gentiles of the Bible,”
led by instructor Norman Shore. 8:15 to
9:25 p.m. $15 to $20 per session. Adas
Israel Congregation, 2850 Quebec St. NW.
jewishstudycenter.org. The course will continue Feb. 18.
Concerts
■ “Musicians From Marlboro II” will feature soprano Sarah Shafer and mezzosoprano Rebecca Ringle performing songs
by Brahms and Dvorák; Hungarian pianists
Izabella Simono and Dénes Várjon performing works by Gyorgy Kurtág; and violinist Michelle Ross and cellist Brook Speltz
performing works by Schubert and
Beethoven. 7:30 p.m. Free; tickets
required. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery
of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-1000.
■ The Delafield String Band will host a
bluegrass jam. 8 to 11 p.m. Free. Reading
Room, Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St.
NW. petworthcitizen.com.
■ Herb Scott will host a weekly Capitol
Hill Jazz Jam. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; two
item per person minimum. Mr. Henry’s
Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE.
202-546-8412.
■ Penguin Gentry and the Hall Williams
Band will perform. 8 p.m. $10. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ “What Is Love? Romance Fiction in
the Digital Age,” an international multimedia conference, will feature authors, scholars and fans discussing the industry. 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Madison Building,
Library of Congress, 101 Independence
Ave. SE. 202-707-5221.
■ In a Valentine’s Day-inspired talk,
National Museum of Women in the Arts
manager of digital engagement Laura Hoffman will discuss “For the Love of Mary,”
about selected artworks in the exhibition
“Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea.”
Noon to 12:30 p.m. Free. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York
Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.
■ Zin Mar Aung — a National Endowment for Democracy fellow, Burmese activist and former prisoner of conscience — will
discuss “Promoting Women’s Political
Empowerment in Burma.” Noon to 1:30
p.m. Free. Lounge A, Kay Spiritual Life Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3321.
■ Arshad I. Ali, assistant professor of
educational research at George Washington University, will discuss “Citizen Suspect:
The Criminalization of Muslim Youth in Post
9-11 America.” 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Free.
Room 260, Bunn Intercultural Center,
NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Steven Rogers, co-founder of Redstones LLC, will discuss “Business Skills
101: Creating Financial Projections for a
Startup.” 5:30 to 7 p.m. Free. Duques Hall,
George Washington University, 2201 G St.
NW. 202-994-5911.
■ Michèle Flournoy, co-founder and
CEO of the Center for a New American
Security and former U.S. undersecretary of
defense for policy, will discuss “Leadership
in International Affairs: Lessons Learned.”
5:30 to 7:15 p.m. Free; reservations
required. City View Room, Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington
University, 1957 E St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/LessonsLearnedFlournoy.
■ Christina Fink, professor of practice
of international affairs at George
Washington University, and Douglas
Jackson, director of research at Jefferson
Waterman International, will discuss
“Myanmar’s Upcoming Elections and the
Fate of the Reform Process.” 6 to 8 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Room 602,
Elliott School of International Affairs,
George Washington University, 1957 E St.
NW. go.gwu.edu/myanmar.
■ A symposium on “An Energy Revolution? The Political Ecologies of Shale Oil in
the Middle East, U.S. and China” will open
with a keynote address by Peter Gleick,
president and co-founder of the Pacific
Institute. 6 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Auditorium, Bunn Intercultural
streets NW. ccas.georgetown.edu/
node/3406. The symposium will continue
Thursday and Friday.
■ Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy will discuss their book “Mr. Putin: Operative in the
Kremlin.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks &
Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-387-1400.
■ In honor of Black History Month,
NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr.
will discuss “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Programs: Ways to Close the Under-representation Gap.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Great Hall,
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,
901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ The West End Library Friends’ series
“Sometimes Strange Meeting: Music in
Western Literature” — led by Ori Z. Soltes,
professorial lecturer in theology at Georgetown University — will focus on “The Vagabond” by Colette. 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. Free.
West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia
Ave. NW. 202-724-8707.
■ Douglas Koshland, professor of
molecular and cell biology at the University
of California at Berkeley, will discuss “Biology at the Extremes: How Studies of the
Extraordinary Lead to Discoveries About
the Ordinary.” 6:45 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Carnegie Institution, 1530 P St.
NW. capitalscience021115.eventbrite.com.
■ Historian Emily Landau will discuss
“The Baby in the King Cake and Other
Mardi Gras Mysteries,” with a King Cake
tasting to follow. 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to
$42. National Museum of African Art, 950
Independence Ave. SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Author Fred Plotkin will discuss “Italy’s Magnificent Six: Regions Worth Discovering — Sardinia.” 6:45 to 9 p.m. $30 to
$42. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Kenneth Daigler will discuss his book
“Spies, Patriots, and Traitors” and the contributions of African-Americans in intelligence operations during the American Revolutionary War. 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park
Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202282-3080.
■ Historian David O. Stewart will discuss his book “Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ A panel of art critics and artists will
discuss the life and career of Hale Woodruff, renowned muralist and community
leader. 7 p.m. Free. Warner Bros. Theater,
National Museum of American History,
Constitution Avenue between 12th and
14th streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ David Axelrod will discuss his memoir
“Believer: My Forty Years in Politics” in conversation with John Dickerson, Slate magazine’s chief political correspondent. 7 p.m.
$15. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St.
NW. sixthandi.org.
■ The Wilson High School Mental
Health Speaker Series will feature a talk by
Wendy Lubic of the Parent Encouragement
Program on “Screen Issues: Taming the
Electronic Monsters in Your Home.” 7:30 to
9 p.m. Free. Library, Wilson High School,
3950 Chesapeake St. NW. 202-282-0120.
Films
■ The Library of Congress will present
ABC’s “Walk in My Shoes,” a 1961 documentary produced and narrated by AfricanAmerican journalist Louis Lomax. Noon.
Free. Mary Pickford Theater, Madison
Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov.
■ UN Women National Capital will host
a screening of the documentary “I Am a
Girl.” 6 p.m. $15. West End Cinema, 2301
M St. NW. 202-780-5187.
■ The Lions of Czech Film series will
feature Viktor Taus’ 2013 dark comedy
“Clownwise.” 8 p.m. $6.50 to $11.75. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-966-6000.
Performances
■ Shaanxi Folk Art Theater will present
a shadow puppetry show featuring six signature vignettes based on Chinese folklore. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ “Press Play Hump Day” will feature a
night of comedy and storytelling. 7:30 p.m.
$8 to $10. District of Columbia Arts Center,
2438 18th St. NW. pressplaydcac.
brownpapertickets.com.
Special events
■ “The Ultimate Megafort” will feature
a chance for adults to design and construct a cardboard structure, and then to
test its strength in a foam ball battle. 6 to
8:30 p.m. Free for Keystone Society members; $20 for others. Reservations
required. National Building Museum, 401 F
St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ The National Portrait Gallery’s
monthly Pop Quiz trivia night will highlight
portraits of great romances in American
history. 6:30 p.m. Free. Kogod Courtyard,
National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The Arts Club of Washington will host
a celebration of the literary magazine Barrelhouse and recent book publications
from two of its founding editors, Dan Brady
and Dave Housley. 7 p.m. Free. Arts Club
of Washington, 2017 I St. NW. 202-3317282, ext. 3.
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